Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Research
As English has become an international language in the world, English leaning in China has been more and more important. Especially with the fast development of education, nowadays scholars and researchers in second language acquisition (SLA) primarily focus on how learner can acquire language effectively. As one of the most essential and complicated factor and individual differences among foreign language acquisition, motivation provides the initiate impetus to learning, which also driving force to maintain language learning process. Even in some cases, motivation determines the degree of efforts that learners make in second language learning. The more motivation they have, the more positive attitude they would adopt and the more efforts they would like to make in the target language learning. Research on language learning motivation in China still lies in its early stage. And because of the different learning environment, the research results cannot apply directly in SLA. Few researches conduct the study on instruction of SLA with the consideration of motivation perspective. For many years, traditional instruction is widely used among most English teachers in China, especially in language grammar teaching. Although there developed many effective ways for teaching listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, it still the traditional instruction when it refers to grammar teaching. In general, the traditional instruction focused on control learners’ output during the language learning acquisition. During the process, learners are given an explanation about the grammatical rules, vocabulary and sentence structure to master the declarative knowledge, which is the foundation of the further study. It firstly need learners’ attention on the correct language structure form without understand its meaning whereby mechanical drills.
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1.2 Significance of the Study
As is known to all, there are three main aspects in learning a language: pronunciation, vocabulary and the grammar. Especially, grammar rules learning are one of the most essential aspects in second language acquisition. The subjunctive mood (SM) is one of the special forms of the finite verb in English grammar. It shares a certain part in the examinations which deserves a necessary and careful attention. However, the experiment shows that it’s also the most confused grammar format to the students when being tested. Therefore, the importance of learning subjunctive mood &
