Attitudes and motivation toward learning the English language among students from Islamic education system background: exploring the views of teachers
According to [1], motivation is one of the main determinants of second language (L2) or foreign language performance. Research in the field of attitudes and motivation has increasingly investigated the nature and role of motivation in L2 learning process, and many are inspired by Canadian psycholo...
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| Language: | English |
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Unversitas Ahmad Dahlan and IAES Indonesia Section
2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/40493/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40493/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40493/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40493/1/Article_Journal_Educ_and_Learning.pdf |
| Summary: | According to [1], motivation is one of the main determinants of second language (L2) or foreign language
performance. Research in the field of attitudes and motivation has increasingly investigated the nature and role of
motivation in L2 learning process, and many are inspired by Canadian psychologists, Robert Gardner and Wallace
Lambert [1]. However, in Malaysia, there has been only a meagre number of researches that investigate teachers'
perceptions on attitudes and motivation of students from religious school background. It is of great significance to
explore the attitudes and motivation of these groups of students because the students appeared to be weak in the
English language and they also held negative perceptions toward the language [2, 3]. The present study is needed to
attain authentic information about possible connections between teachers' personal experiences, their perspectives
and their practices regarding teaching and learning of students from the aforementioned background. This
qualitative research study contains in-depth teacher interviews that document their personal perceptions, ways of
dealing with students in the specified setting, and their suggestions on improving the attitudes and motivation of
learning English for students from religious school background. Findings are presented according to the research
questions intended for the study and several conclusions were drawn from the data.
Keywords: Attitudes and motivation, English as a Second Language, Religious school background |
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