Study on Correlation between Enrollment Motivation and Learning Engagement of Postgraduates of English Education

Abstract

With the continuous promotion of the reform of higher education system, as well as the continuous deepening of the popularity of higher education, our country's postgraduate education has entered a new development stage. In the past ten years, the enrollment of various majors has been expanding, and the number of students has also achieved substantial growth. Among them, the proportion of postgraduates of English education is also expanding. For a postgraduate student majoring in English Education, whether he has the correct admission motivation, whether he agrees with the chosen major and whether he is interested in the major he is learning are very important for his professional learning and his own development. In the study of second language acquisition, motivation and learning engagement are both important factors that influence learners' individual differences in second language learning. However, as an important part of learning motivation, the motivation of admission has not been paid enough attention in the previous research field of motivation. In addition, there are few researches on the correlation between enrollment motivation and learning engagement at home and abroad, and few take master of English education as the research object. Therefore, based on relevant theories and researches, this paper takes the full-time postgraduates of English Education of Class 2021 of University X as the research subjects, explores their enrollment motivation and learning engagement through questionnaire, and analyzes the correlation between them. In order to make full use of the motivation to improve the academic input of master of subject English education to provide some feasible suggestions. The research focuses on the following three questions: (1) What is the enrollment motivation of postgraduates of English Education? (2) How do the postgraduates of English Education engage in learning? (3) What are the reasons that influence the learning engagement of postgraduates of English Education? It is found that students’ enrollment motivation is diversified and the degree of learning engagement is insufficient. Besides, most students are  lack of scientific planning during postgraduate period. Moreover, most of students are lack of educational belief and practice. The study makes some suggestions to address these problems.