A Study on College Students' Achievement Attribution in English Learning

摘要

Students' attribution directly influence their degree of effort, which affect their progress in academic achievement. Based on Weiner's attribution theory, it researches on college students' characteristics of attribution by questionnaires. The findings indicate that vocational college students mainly attribute success to internal factors more than external factors. Generally, most students attribute their success and failure to internal factors such as learning strategy, effort and interest, luck. There are some differences of attribution ascribed between high achievers and low achievers, males and females. Therefore, re-attribution training is provided including guidance, goals setting so as to strengthen students' psychological conditions, thus improve academic achievement.