Rong Zhao
ABSTRACT
Learners’ motivation exerts great impact on the outcome of adult online learning. Adult learners have specific characteristics that set them apart from traditional students, which demands scholars to adopt a particular perspective to study their motivation and relevant factors. This study argues that teachers’ curriculum competence and communication competence play a positive role in satisfying adult learners’ motivation in online foreign language learning. An empirical study was carried out, data were collected from 231 adult learners. Both the relations between teachers’ curriculum competence and adult learners’ motivation and between teachers’ communication competence and learners’ motivation were studied and compared by SPSS 27.0. As proved in this study, in online foreign language learning, teachers are expected to have desirable curriculum and communication competences, and their competences have positive effects on adult learners’ motivation.
Additional Keywords and Phrases: Teacher's competence, Adult learner, ERG theory, Motivation
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- Teachers’ Desirable Competences and their Effects on Adult Learners’ Motivation in Online Foreign Language Learning
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