Abstract
This research paper outlines the Malaysian and Japanese undergraduate students' learning motivation, before and after joining a Global Study Program (GSP) held in Chiba University, Japan from 14 March-28 March 2016. A total of 15 Malaysian undergraduate students from Multimedia University, consisting of 2nd year to 4th year students, joined the GSP together with 15 Japanese 1st year to 4th year undergraduate students from Chiba University. The study focused on examining students' learning motivation in three experiment phases. The 1st phase of experiment consisted of conducting surveys on all students before the commencement of GSP. The 2nd phase of experiment consisted of daily observational measurements toward students' motivation and performance. Lastly, the 3rd phase of experiment consisted of conducting the same surveys again on all students after the GSP. Note that the survey consisted of 29 questions covering value components, expectancy components, affective components and self-perceived learning components. The results of this study indicated that the learning motivation of Malaysian and Japanese undergraduate students had significantly improved after joining the GSP course.
Highlights
Motivation is defined as the psychological driven force that stimulates an individual to achieving a certain goal or performing a certain task (Maferima and Ayelet, 2014)
The results collected from this study are separated into three different sections according to the three phases described in the methodology, namely the survey results obtained before the commencement of the Global Study Program (GSP) course, the observation results obtained from students' performance during the 2-weeks GSP course and the survey results obtained after the completion of the GSP course
By solely judging from this pre-course survey, it may seem that Multimedia University (MMU) students are more motivated than Chiba University (Chiba-U) students to participate in the GSP course
Summary
Motivation is defined as the psychological driven force that stimulates an individual to achieving a certain goal or performing a certain task (Maferima and Ayelet, 2014). On the other hand, can be defined as the psychological factors that affect individual's behavior towards their learning process (Kleinginna and Kleinginna, 1981). On the other hand, Othman et al (2009) and Salmiza (2014) studied Malaysian students' motivation toward learning science and physics, respectively. These studies unveiled the importance of motivation in stimulating Malaysian students in learning and served as couching guidelines for Malaysian lecturers and educators in the course delivery planning
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