本文运用定量研究的方法,通过对陕南三市(汉中市、安康市、商洛市)中的十所乡镇中学校近千名留守儿童外语学习动机的调查进行分析,试图探讨留守儿童这一特殊学生群体外语学习的动机取向以及他们在不同动机类型中的表现差异,帮助乡镇中学校的外语教师更好地指导留守儿童的外语学习,推动基础外语教学的改革和发展。 This paper analyzes the motivation of nearly one thousand left-behind children’s foreign language learning motivation in ten township secondary schools in three townships of Hannan, Ankang and Shangluo in order to explore the motivation of left-behind children The motivational orientation of group foreign language learning and their differences in performance in different motivational types help foreign language teachers in township and town schools better guide the foreign language learning of left-behind children and promote the reform and development of basic foreign language teaching.