A Study Of China's Case Study In China

Background

In 1978, the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping promoted the sending of 860 students and scholars to study abroad. Since then there has been a rapid increase in the numbers of Chinese students studying abroad. With sustained economic development on the mainland the option to study abroad has become more affordable for increasing numbers of Chinese families. For example, the number of students choosing to study overseas is reported to have increased by a factor of 11 over the past five years (China Daily, 2007) In 2007, there were over 700,000 Chinese students and scholars studying in 108 countries and regions all over the world (Ministry of Education, 2007), which makes China the largest source country of international students in

Some Chinese students who choose to study abroad want to master a foreign language, to make friends with people who come from different countries. They want to make studying abroad as a stepping stone to a good job or an international career. They want to experience living in another country, study different culture and grow up in a new way. They can have a broader field of vision and feel the culture melting pot. At the same time, it is in accord with adolescent characteristics, which are adventurous, curious, receptive, etc. On one hand, they are possibly some reasons of the Chinese students choosing study abroad. On other hand, the phenomenon of the Chinese students choosing study abroad indicates that their parents have a good income from the stable or industrious work. The parents are aware enough of the importance of education and willing to invest for their children. They want to give a better learning environment for children's development. Nowadays, mobility of mainland Chinese students across national borders has become common worldwide. The majority of Chinese students studying overseas are doing so at their own expense. They will pay much more money to study abroad than study in China. Why they also choose to

So we need to research. Through a study of the motivation which Chinese students have when choosing to studying in other countries, we want to find out the motivation of them.

Research Questions

Quantitative question: What is the motivation of those who study abroad when compared with those who don't?

Qualitative question: Is that the parents’ decision belonging to extrinsic motivation?

The variables: intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation.

Motivations are what drive a person to obtain satisfaction from a class of stimuli. Motivations allow people to articulate their needs in a concrete way by focusing on specific stimuli such as money, prestige, power, curiosity, achievement, etc. (Jolibert & Baumgartner, 1997) Intrinsic motivation is defined as the doing of an activity for its inherent satisfactions rather than for some separable consequence. An intrinsically motivated person engages voluntarily in an action, without any external rewards. The action is inherently satisfying without the need to be motivated by