ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFUENCING ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION OF CHINESE STUDENTS ABOVE MATRICULATION LEVEL BASED ON SEM AND fsQCA METHODS

Abstract

Motivation in educational activity is a specific type of motivation embedded in the structure of teaching and learning processes. The relevance of this study lies in examining motivation as a crucial component of educational activity, which becomes a defining characteristic of students as active participants in the learning process. The article identifies and explores factors influencing the motivation of Chinese students with secondary education to learn foreign languages. The article aims to validate the motivational factors among secondary education students in foreign language learning. The research objectives include: identifying the factors affecting motivation and the psychological-pedagogical conditions of their develop-ment in foreign language learning; analyzing the factors influencing Chinese secondary education students' motivation to study foreign languages using SEM and fsQCA methods; investigating existing combinations of these factors leading to high motivation; and selecting the most effective combinations. The research methods used include: theoretical analysis of psychological-pedagogical and methodological literature, data collection, empirical analysis, comparative analysis, structural equation modeling (SEM), and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Based on the applied research methods, six factors positively influencing Chinese secondary education students' motivation to learn foreign languages were identified. The study confirmed the existence of these six factors and revealed five combinatorial pathways among all possible combinations of antecedent factors leading to high motivation. The study proposes various factor combi¬nations to foster high motivation and suggests a new direction for further in-depth research on enhancing motivation strategies.