SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING SUCCESS AND MOTIVATION
By A. Engin. 2009
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The aim of this study was to understand the importance of the types of motivation students need to learn a foreign language successfully. Teaching and learning a foreign language are dependent upon positive motivation. A questionnaire and an achievement test were prepared and administered to a group of 44 students. Results were analyzed and evaluations and comparisons between success and motivation levels were then used to make suggestions for planning activities relating to teaching and learning languages.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
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- Willingness to communicate of EFL learners in Turkish context (2015, background): “Unfortunately, the present line of L2 research in Turkey (Engin, 2009; König, 2006) does no justice to the broader interpretation of the motivation to learn a L2 and, more specifically, to promote WTC in English.”
- To Investigate ESL Students’ Instrumental and Integrative Motivation towards English Language Learning in a Chinese School in Penang: Case Study (2017, background): “Learners learn the second language because they wish to socialise or participate in the target language group (Saville, 2006). Masgoret and Gardner (2003) classified integratively motivated learners as being open to other language communities, plus having positive and favorable attitudes throughout ”