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Call Number (WOU) SP MEd 2016 11
Author Cynthia, Choo Pei Yi
Title Motivation in learning Japanese as a foreign language among Malaysian undergraduates / Cynthia, Choo Pei Yi
Abstract Motivation is one of the significant factors that affects students’ language learning. Motivation differs in everyone and with the help of it, it moves individuals towards their goals. In foreign language learning, it is vital for teachers to know and understand about motivation in order to help them to motivate students to learn the foreign language. This study aims to identify whether intrinsic or extrinsic motivation plays a greater role in motivating students to learn a foreign language and to explore the factors that influence the difference between female and male students in their motivation in learning a foreign language. Relevant studies have been done over the years by various researchers to find out the relation between motivation and foreign language learning. However, few research have been done in Malaysian context. 53 undergraduates from a private university, who are learning Japanese language as a foreign language participated in this study. A 16-item questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were used to collect the data. As for data analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods such as t-test and theme analysis were applied. The findings revealed that intrinsic motivation plays a greater role in motivating students in foreign language learning and a total of five factors that influence the difference between male and female students’ motivation level in learning a foreign language. The five factors are attitudes towards the country and the culture of the foreign language learnt, significant others-related dimension, attitudes towards the learning process in class, learning strategies, and intrinsic motivation.
Notes Final project report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master of Education.
Publisher/Year Penang : School of Education, Languages and Communications, Wawasan Open University, 2016.
Physical Description various pages.
Subject Language Teaching -- Motivation

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