한국적 영어학습 동기척도의 타당화 연구: 성격특성 개인차 요인을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to validate the English learning motivation inventory for adults reflecting Korean-specific educational contexts and learners’ personalities. To this end, 946 students at a local university participated in a questionnaire survey. The validation in this paper made an attempt to incorporate personality factors of the Big Five Inventory into the measuring framework as the main subjective feature of motivational orientation that lead to learning outcome. Validation process includes a content experts panel, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and the use of reference scale. Considering the English learning experience of Korean adult, conscientiousness, openness, and neuroticism were presumed to be important constructs of Korean adult ELLs’ motivation. The results of validation formulated the CAPS inventory model with 4 sub-categories and 23 items. CAPS includes conscientiousness, acceptableness, positiveness, and sensitiveness for English learning. The full list of the CAPS motivation inventory is available in the appendix.