ABSTRACT
Nowadays, the field of second language learning motivation is beginning to receive more and more attention, and this paper focuses on the influence of family factors among the external factors on learning motivation among the factors that influence adolescents’ motivation to learn a second language. It includes the influence of family economic background, parents’ educational background, and parents’ education style on adolescents’ motivation to learn a second language. Through a large amount of research data, the paper discusses how these three factors affect adolescents’ motivation to learn. It also explains what inappropriate educational styles are and their negative effects, including coercion, criticism, comparison, punishment, and over-protective, coddling, and over-intervention-based educational styles, on adolescents’ motivation to learn, and uses them as a premise to avoid inappropriate educational styles and call for parents to establish correct educational concepts, including respecting their children's learning habits and ideas, paying attention to their children's physical and mental health in the learning process, and encouraging them to learn. The review also pointed out the importance of family factors and the direction of future research that could focus on family factors, especially parental education.
