The study of technical university students’ tourism english vocabulary learning motivation and achievement

The purposes of the study were to examine technical university students’ tourism English vocabulary learning achievement and motivation. The subjects were118 studentsfrom a technical university in southern Taiwan. The instruments consisted of one questionnaire called TARGETT questionnaire with seven factors about learning motivation on tourism English vocabulary and one English test called Professional Vocabulary Quotient Credential (PVQC) on tourism. 58 subjects accepted a 40-hour tourism vocabulary learning training course, and then took a 50-minute PVQC test and 10-minute TARGETT questionnaire inDecember, 2014. The other 60 studentsalso accepted a 40-hour tourism vocabulary learning training course, and then took a 50-minute PVQC test and 10-minute TARGETT questionnairein June, 2015.The researcher collected the data from the questionnaire and PVQC test and analyzed the data by descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The results revealed that most of the subjects liked to learn tourism English vocabulary, and found that learning tourism English vocabulary was important for them. The results also showed that male subjects had significantly different opinions from female ones in some factors of learning motivation. Moreover, the subjects with different attitudes towards tourism vocabulary learning had different effects on their ESP vocabulary learning motivation. And the subjects with different opioions about tourism vocabulary learning had different effects on their ESP vocabulary learning motivation. Finally, the researcher drew a conclusion based on the results and provided some teaching and research implications for the future.