예비무역인의 영어학습동기가 영어학습전략 사용에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증 연구

The Relationship between English Learning Motivation and English Learning Strategy: The Case of the GTEP Program

The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences and correlation between English learning motivation and English learning strategies of two groups of Korean university students categorized as future trade experts and non-trade experts. This study focused on business education and training program sponsored and operated by the korean government for 7 years for the purpose of fostering future trade specialists known as GTEP(Global Trade Experts Incubation Program) and defined GTEP participants as future trade experts. The test for English learning motivation which was set up with 8 questions consisting of 4 internal motivations and 4 external motivations, was made under the special conditions of the GTEP curriculum. Oxford's test(1990) was applied in the analysis of learning strategies. Participants of this study consisted of 266 university students categorized into two groups: 133 future trade experts and 133 non-trade experts. In terms of motivation, results showed future trade experts having higher internal/external motivations than non-trade experts. In the analysis of strategies, the future trade experts group showed a correlation between both learning motivations and learning strategies while the non-trade experts group showed a correlation only between internal motivation and strategies. One interesting finding is that the negative correlation between external motivation and strategies was found in the future trade experts group. These results indicate that GTEP has led to advanced English proficiency in the case of future trade experts. But, there still remains some tasks that need to be done to help students internalize their learning motivations and stimulate the usage of English learning strategies.