Attitudes and Motivation of Turkish Undergraduate EFL Students towards Learning English Language
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2014
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes and motivation of first-year Turkish
undergraduates toward English language learning as a foreign language. The study was carried out
with 90 students majoring in business studies at Cag University, Mersin in Turkey by administering a
survey designed on a five-point Likert scale with 43 items including demographic questions about the
learners’ background information such as gender, age, and how long they have been learning English.
The items on the survey were chosen from Dörnyei and Csizér (2006) in a variety of Hungarian
researches and from a recently designed questionnaire by Ryan (2005). The domains used for the
purpose of the study were: integrativeness, attitudes to L2 community, cultural interest, attitudes to
learning English, criterion measures, ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, family influence, instrumentality
(promotion and prevention), and fear of assimilation.
The data collected were analysed through descriptive statistics in SPSS statistical program. The results
revealed that Turkish first-year university students learn English as a foreign language mostly for
instrumental reasons, and it also showed that integrative motivation is dominant motivational
orientation for the participants in some degree.
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Attitude, Motivation, Integrativeness, L2 community, Instrumentality
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Studies in English Language Teaching
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Tokoz-Goktepe, F. (2014). Attitudes and motivation of Turkish undergraduate EFL students towards learning English Language. Studies in English Language Teaching, 2 (3), 314-332.
