期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：71
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：This study investigated the perceptions of university education among juniorstudents of English at three public universities in Jordan. The data was collected byasking the sample students (N=105) to directly answer the question: "why do you thinkpeople want to attend university?" The students provided answers in the form of freeshort essays (one page of three paragraphs) during writing courses taught during theacademic year 2012-2013. The essays were skimmed and scanned manually andanalyzed thematically using a qualitative content-analysis functional approach. Acorpus of (525) statements realizing functions of higher education in the essays wereidentified and categorized in terms of themes using key words analysis. The resultsshowed that these students viewed university education in terms of both intrinsic as wellas instrumental motivation. However, the majority of motivating factors were seen inintrinsic motivation. The major reasons identified for attending university werepersonal development followed by job factors and socio-cultural interaction.
