English language students and their motivation to learn the language.

Abstract

Nowadays, English has become a worldwide language that has created great interest within different educational contexts. Due to its importance it has been important to conduct a research about: “English language students and their motivation to learn the language”, whose main purpose is to learn from the students’ perceptions their motivation to learn English. The principal instrument used was a student questionnaire that focuses on the factors that motivate students to learn English. The surveys were applied to a hundred students from a private school in Tumbaco, Quito. Also, as a matter of fact, five observation sheets were fulfilled in order to encompass attributes that were not clearly reflected within the questions. The surveys’ questions were focused on searching quantitative and qualitative data. Finally, it was possible to conclude that students’ motivation most of the time depends on the teacher actions, methodology, attitude and the relationship established during the classroom. Besides, it was possible to observe that the kind of motivation shown by the learners focused more toward an intrinsic motivation.