Statistical analysis of students’ language for business purposes motivation
Abstract
In my empirical research with students studying a language for business purposes, I have examined the students’ language for specific business purposes motivation. I also analysed social background variables. Descriptive statistical calculations were made and the difference between the most important and the least important language learning motivation aspects was analyzed with paired sample t-test. Two independent sample t-test statistics were used to examine differences between student motivation statements and bivalent socioeconomic variables. In case of those variables where there were more than two categories, I examined the attitudes of learning a language for specific purposes with one-factor analysis of variance and Tukey's posthoc test. I separated the attitudes related to motivation by principal component analysis, and then, using the principal component values, I examined language for specific business purposes motivation using social background variables and applied two independent sample t-tests. The results reflect that students with different socio-demographic background have different language for specific purposes learning motivation attitudes, the social background variables influence the process of learning languages for specific purposes and in the principal component analysis they produce different significant results concerning my language for specific purposes motivation model.
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