Abstract
The purpose of this research is to clarify 1) factors determine that English Learning Motivation, 2) differences (of English learning motivation) between Japan and Korea, 3) the influence that English Learning Motivation has on lesson evaluation and 4) the different results of covariance structure analysis in Japan and Korea. The results of a study involving 414 Japanese and 470 Korean grade five and six pupils showed that English Learning Motivation is composed of 4 factors and that Korean pupils were at a significantly higher level than Japanese pupils in 3 factors. And covariance structure analysis demonstrated that pupil's efforts and understanding was affected by usefulness, intrinsic and exchange desire motivation. Intrinsic motivation effects pupil's efforts and understanding in accordance with positive impression of and degree of satisfaction with lessons. Furthermore, by multi-population simultaneous analysis, it was also determined that intrinsic motivation directly influences pupil's efforts and understanding in Japan; however, no influence was detected in Korea.
