中國醫藥大學 110 學年度學士後中醫學系入學招生考試
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V. Reading
Questions 41-50: Choose the BEST answer to each question below according to what is stated and
implied in the following passages.
Student motivation has repeatedly been identified as one of the most prominent factors affecting
students’ ultimate learning outcomes. According to Ushida (2005), motivation is both a condition for,
and a result of, effective instruction. Many empirical cognitive studies have shown that lack of
motivation for learning may be overcome by providing students with a sense of competition (Gardner,
2011). Competition not only implicates “winner takes all” but also allows students who lag in certain
areas to sense the imbalance between themselves and others, and then to compete with their peers to
achieve “equal” status. In a competitive practice activity, students are usually in an alert state and are
therefore more sensitive to the permissible conversation turns/junctures, which in turn prepares them
to be better able to communicate in synchronous or “real-time” conversation (Warschauer & Healey,
1998). Such oral participation or communication skills are important in any collaborative classroom
group work or whole-class conversation. In this vein, Hung, Young, and Lin (2013) found that
learners are more motivated to participate in a classroom activity when the activity is competitive in
nature; more importantly, a competitive activity was found to have the potential to minimize the
achievement gap for disadvantage students and to facilitate the motivation of students at different
developmental stages.
In traditional classroom settings where behavior management strategies are employed, learner
motivation tends to be low as students are generally aware that it is the instructor who holds the power
to allocate rewards. As such, these strategies do not reach their full potential as they rely mainly on
extrinsic motivation, i.e., the instructor holds the balance of power, leaving learners with less control
over rewards. In contrast, a behavior management strategy that targets intrinsic motivation — where
learners hold the balance of power and more control over rewards — would in turn realize greater
potential (Dincer, Yesilyurt, & Takkac, 2012). Note, however, that behavior management methods
that target intrinsic motivation are difficult to be implemented in traditional classroom settings,
because students generally vary from each other in terms of their internal/intrinsic drives for language
learning. Inter-learner variation in intrinsic motivation also suggests that a thorough learner
motivation analysis is warranted before the design and implementation of a behavior management
method; in this regard, it would involve far too much administration for one instructor to handle. Even
if such a learning motivation analysis is possible, instructors are not likely to effectively attend to the
needs of each individual. However, Web 2.0 behavior management system — a technology-mediated
system — may potentially tackle the aforementioned power issues and reduce the inter-learner
variation in intrinsic motivation.
41. Which statement best describes the gist of this passage?