MOTIVATION TOWARDS LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AMONG FIRST STAGE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT THE GARMIAN UNIVERSITY
Keywords:
learning-English, language, motivation, studentAbstract
English language is a widely used language that has gained more popularity in the recent years especially in Iraq. This might be due to the essentiality of English language in providing a better opportunity in obtaining an educational degree, jobs, scholarships for studying abroad, and to travel.
The present study is a descriptive analytic study. The purpose of the study is to examine motivation of the first stage students at the English department- College of Education- University of Garmian. In addition, the study attempts to determine the types of motivation that students have toward learning English language and the relationship between gender and types of motivation. By preparing the descriptive and inferential information, the descriptive data including mean, standard deviation, and frequency are reported on in characterizing the research units and representing the levels of Motivation. Chi-Squared Test was employed to investigate the relationship between the variables and types of motivation, and one-way ANOVA was also computed.
The data showed that there is a significant difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation (t= 4.40, p= 0.00<0.05) with respect to the obtained extrinsic mean. It can be concluded that most of the students had extrinsic motivation for learning English. The one-way ANOVA indicated that there is no significant relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in male and female students. Thus, they have the same motivation for learning English language.
the research found that first stage students at the English department are more extrinsically motivated toward learning English language. Furthermore, there was no significant relationship between Gender and types of motivations found in the research.
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