ESL Students' Learning Motivations and Strategies

The purposes of this study were to understand ESL (English as a Second Language) students learning motivations and learning strategies in the West North Central division of the United States. This study concluded that the ESL students tend to be more instrumentally motivated than integratively motivated when learning English, and female students use strategies more frequently than male students when learning English. The researcher suggests that since ESL students learning motivations and strategies are different, ESL instructors should understand more about students motivations and strategies in order to vary their teaching styles to achieve better results in language learning.

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Yi-Chen teaches ESL/EFL and would like to do it for the rest of her life. She received her Doctor of Education degree in Adult and Higher Education from the University of South Dakota. Currently she is teaching at the Transworld Institute of Technology in Douliou, Taiwan. Her research interests include learning motivations and strategies.