This chapter presents the research environment, research design, subjects of the study, data gathering instruments, data gathering procedure and the statistical treatment of data.
Research Design
This study made use of descriptive method of research to determine the relationship of teachers‟ motivational techniques and students‟ performance in Basic English course and its implication to English Language teaching and learning in Hanoi University of Industry.
According to Best and Kahn (2007), method of research which concerns itself with the present phenomena in terms of conditions, practices beliefs, processes, relationships or trends invariably is termed as “descriptive survey study”.
A descriptive-correlational method will be the most appropriate method for this study because it will attempt to determine how related two or more variables are. Gay, L. R. (1987). This degree of relation is expressed as a correlation coefficient as this study will determine the relationship between the teacher‟s motivational techniques and student‟s performance classified as high, average and low in Basic English course.
Research Environment
Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI) is one of the biggest state university in Vietnam composed of 3 campuses with 300 lecture rooms
and halls and 200 well equipped laboratories and workshops. It covers an area 50 hectares.
As a leading multi-level, multi field industrial training center in Vietnam, Hanoi University of Industry has forty thousand students, one thousand seven hundred personnel of which one thousand four hundred are teachers and lecturers. 75 % of the lecturers are with post graduate qualifications. Hanoi University of Industry as a prestigious institution is also the center of research and development in Vietnam and its focus is more on science research activities.
As the largest higher education training university, HaUI has six levels of training which are in demand. These comprised higher education, undergraduate, professional college, professional school, diploma vocational training and vocational training. To keep its pace with regional and global advancement in terms of training, technology transfer and scientific research, HaUI established linkages with foreign partners in many diverse cooperation programs and fields. The core values of the university to succeed are creativity, quality, development and effectiveness.
Subjects of the Study
The respondents of the study is composed of 385 first year College students taking up Basic English course obtained using the Slovin‟s formula with five percent (5 %) margin of error and 125 English language teachers of Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI), Vietnam for the school
year 2013-2014. Table 1 shows the distribution of respondents of Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI).
Table 1
Distribution of respondents of Hanoi University of Industry (HaUI) English Basic
Classes
Teacher Population
Student
Population Student Sample
Basic 1-12 10 780 31
Basic 13-25 10 770 30
Basic 26-50 18 1467 56
Basic 51-80 23 1898 73
Basic 81-100 18 1457 56
Basic 101-125 23 1782 69
Basic 126-150 23 1846 71
TOTAL 125 10,000 385
As shown in the table, the total number of Freshman students‟
population taking up Basic English course comprised the 150 classes at Hanoi University of Industry is ten thousand. Out of this total population, 385 students were randomly selected and were used as subjects of the study based on the following groupings or sections. In sections one to twelve, 780 students, 31 were selected while in sections 13 to 25, students were considered out of the 770 total number of students in those sections.
In section 26 to 50, 55 were taken out of one thousand four hundred sixty seven total number of students while in sections 51 to 80, out of one thousand eight hundred ninety eight only 75 students were
used as respondents. The rest of the sections from eighty one to one hundred, out of one thousand four hundred fifty seven, 60 were used; for sections one hundred one to one hundred twenty five, 70 were considered out of one thousand seven hundred eighty two and finally for sections 126 to 150, 72 were utilized as respondents of the study out of the total number of students of one thousand eight hundred forty six for these sections.
Data Gathering Instrument
The following research instruments were utilized in gathering data.
Survey Questionnaire. This is designed to determine the different motivational techniques employed by teachers in teaching Basic English Course. In this questionnaire, demographic profiles of teachers were also determined in terms of age, gender, place of origin, civil status, educational qualification as well as years of teaching experience.
Teacher-Made Test. This is designed to evaluate the levels of academic performance of Freshman College students in their Basic English course.
Data Gathering Procedure
Concepts and literatures were used to broaden knowledge and understanding of the present study. Books, journals, other reading references, published and unpublished researches and online references were used to support the discussion of the present research.
Two sets of instruments were prepared for this study: the survey questionnaire and the teacher-made test. Test items in the teacher-made test were subjected to a dry-run to fourth year (BSED) college students major in English while the items of survey questionnaire for teachers were likewise subjected to a dry-run to graduate students of Master of Arts in English language Teaching of Batangas State University to determine the degree of appropriateness of the items for teachers and students respectively. The survey questionnaire for teachers and teacher-made test for students underwent also validations by panel members and expert on the field.
Letters of request for such validations of research instruments were sought and documentation of the proceedings were also done.
As soon as the questionnaire and test were prepared, letters of request again were written and prepared to secure permission for their administration for both students and teachers. Once permission was sought and approved by the HaUI administrators, survey questionnaire was administered to teacher to determine the kind of motivational techniques employed in their teaching of the Basic English Course. The teacher made test for students was used to assess the academic performance of students in their Basic English course.
Before letting the teacher respondents accomplished the survey questionnaire, a meeting was called to 125 English teachers but only 105 attended. The purpose of calling such meetings was explained to the
teachers as well as the procedure in accomplishing the survey questionnaire. English teachers were requested to spend at least one hour and a half to accomplish the questionnaire for accuracy. Then afterwards, all questionnaires for teachers were retrieved and tallied.
As for student respondents, out of one thousand one hundred students, the total population of College Freshman students of HaUI taking up Basic English Course, 391 of them were taken as respondents using the Slovin formula and randomly selected from the clustering of 150 classes. Each class was given 55 minutes to accomplish test questionnaire where 10 minutes was allocated to explain the objective of the test as well as the instruction and 45 minutes to answer the test items.
Afterwards, the test questionnaire were retrieved and tallied.
Documentation of all the proceedings of the conduct and administration of questionnaire for both teachers and students were gathered.
Statistical Treatment of Data
The data gathered were subjected to the following statistical treatment to have a meaningful interpretation and analysis of the study:
Cronbach alpha. This was used to measure internal consistency of the scores of the constituent motivational technique.
Frequency Count. This was used to determine the number of responses for each item.
Mean. This was used to determine the average score of the students in the teacher-made test
Percentage. This was used to determine the magnitude of the frequency in relation to the whole responses.
Ranking. This was used to determine the positional importance of responses.
Standard Deviation. This was used to determine the variation of scores of students in the teacher-made test results with respect to the mean score.
T- test. This was used to find out the significant mean difference of the specify being compared.
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