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Download full textAlqahtani, Ali Falah – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper is a report on the study of the relationship between foreign/second language (L2) motivation and vocabulary knowledge. The population of the study is the cadets of a military academy in Saudi Arabia who study English as a foreign language. The total number of participants is 195 Saudis. The author uses the L2 Motivational Self System to…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Daif-Allah, Ayman Sabry; Aljumah, Fahad Hamad – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper analyzes and determines the various orientations of 247 Saudi male and female university students for learning English. The descriptive and correlational approaches were used to investigate the participants' motivations. The researchers adapted questionnaires available from the literature to quantitatively collect data. The results show…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation
Yan, Haiying Yan – English Language Teaching, 2020
Beliefs are a central construct in every discipline. Meanwhile, students' beliefs about language learning play an important role in their language motivation, attitude and achievement. This study intends to explore the current situation of the English learning beliefs of College students in Minority Regions in China and then attempts to find out…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, College Students, Foreign Countries
Fielden, Laura V.; Rico, Mercedes – English Language Teaching, 2018
One of the overlooked motivational areas for VET hospitality students learning English is attribution theories, students' beliefs about why they fail or succeed. Weiner identified four basic attributions that people tend to have in achievement situations (2010; 1984): ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck, which contribute to students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attribution Theory, Vocational English (Second Language), Adult Vocational Education
Akay, Cenk – English Language Teaching, 2017
Since Gardner introduced the importance of motivation on Language 2 learning, the concept has been accompanied with three more relevant concepts; amotivation, demotivation and remotivation. This paper mainly focused on high school students' de-motivation and remotivation in English. De-motivation is a set of factors which decreases the motivation…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Green, Kieran; Fujita, Junichi – English Language Teaching, 2016
Here is documented investigation to assess the motivational drivers of a group of Japanese, first-year, dental-university students taking part in compulsory EFL classes and to compare those motivational drivers with an investigation into the motivational drivers of a group of Japanese IT students. There was a clear difference between extrinsic and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
