Foreign Language Learning Motivation in Academia

Prodanovska-Poposka, Vesna and Todorova, Marija (2023) Foreign Language Learning Motivation in Academia. 5th International Conference “Education Across Borders” - “Innovative Education: Strengthening the Future”. pp. 564-577. ISSN 978-9928-4731-8-9

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Abstract

Every individual aiming to learn particular foreign language (FL) is motivated by certain factors such as culture or customs of a country, or due to a personal goal striving to achieve. Motivation is an internal factor that encourages or initiates, organizes, directs and determines the intensity and duration of learning activities, and plays a particularly important role when it comes to learning a foreign language. The paper provides an insight of the foreign language motivation of the higher education academic staff, particularly investigating two types of motivation in learning or improving a foreign language. The instrument used in the research was an adapted version of Attitude/Motivation Test Battery by R. C. Gardner, aimed for speakers of English as a foreign language that is mandatory and the most widely used foreign language in academia. The participants included in this research are academics from several public and private universities in the R. of North Macedonia. According to the results, the study provides analysis of the level of motivation from instrumental and integrative aspects regarding the foreign language learning, which in future might significantly influence on raising the awareness and increasing the motivation about foreign language learning (FLL) as well as on the improving of the language users’ proficiency.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Marija Todorova
Date Deposited:	26 Dec 2023 08:37
Last Modified:	26 Dec 2023 08:37
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/33103

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