Chapter 8: Motivation and Self-Regulation:A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Effect of Culture and Context of Learning on Student Motivation

This study compared motivational orientation and self-regulation of Chinese students in Hong Kong, Chinese Canadian students and Canadian students of European origin studying in Montreal Junior Colleges (CGEP). The results showed that Hong Kong students spent more time studying than Canadian students, but had lower marks, were more anxious, perceived themselves to be less competent, and engaged in less appropriate self-regulatory activities than their Canadian counterparts. Differences between Canadian Chinese and Hong Kong Chinese in motivational orientation reflected differences in learning and teaching methods used in the two different educational contexts as well as cultural differences.