Abstract:In recent years, researchers at home and abroad have attached great importance to the studies of the effect of learning motivations on the English Grade. Accordingly, various studies on the effect of learning motivations on the English Grade have been evoked both in the foreign countries and in China. Nevertheless, most of these studies focused their attention mainly on college students and city students. Therefore, this study attempts to explore the effect of learning motivations on the English grade polarization of the students in rural junior middle schools.

　　　In this study, we first did a questionnaire investigation and two interviews to look into the current situations concerning learning motivations of students of rural junior middle school, and then we carried out strengthening experiment of learning motivations on the chosen subjects. Through the questionnaire investigation, two interviews and the strengthening experiment, we found out that the score of English examination varies extremely from good and bad, so the English Grade polarization of the students is very serious. And the strengthening experiment of learning motivations has significant effect on the improving students’ learning motivations and their English grade and being conductive to eliminating the polarization of English grade of students. We hope that this study will shed some insights on the English teaching and improvement of English grade of students in rural junior middle schools.

Key Words: rural junior middle school students; learning motivations; strengthening learning motivations; polarization of English grade; an empirical study

摘要:近年来，学习动机对英语成绩的影响受到了国内外学者的重视，而这在国内外也引发了一系列关于学习动机对英语成绩的影响的研究。然而，这些研究的实验对象都过于集中，以大学生和城市初中生为主。因此，本研究试图探讨农村初中学习动机强化对其在英语成绩两极分化的具体影响效果。

　　　在本次研究中，我们首先通过问卷和两次访谈以调查目前农村初中学习动机现状；然后我们对所选取的实验对象进行了学习动机的强化研究。通过问卷调查，访谈和强化实验，我们发现：英语考试成绩好的好，差的差，两极分化十分严重。强化学生的学习动机对受试者的英语学习成绩提高及对于消除英语成绩的两级分化具有显著效果。我们希望本研究能为农村初中英语老师教学以及强化学生的学习动机来提高成绩方面提供一些见解

关键词：农村初中生；学习动机；强化学习动机；英语成绩两极分化；实证研究