Investigating the Essential Factors on Students Motivation through Comparing Boys and Girls in Terms of Instrumental & Integrative Motivation in EFL Classrooms

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify and examine Albanian's private secondary school students' instrumental motivation towards learning English as a second language. Instrumental motivation was considered inclusively, but integrative motivation in general terms. The present study employs a quantitative approach in relation with collecting data by a survey which has questionnaire aiming to measure the motivational factors on the students in single-sex environment and its useful outcomes regarding English language teaching. The questionnaire was developed by Glynn, S. M., & Koballa, T., R., Jr. (2006) and adapted from it. As the demographic information, just gender was requested in the questionnaire. In this study, the questionnaire was utilized in two different selected single-sex secondary private schools separately (girls and boys) in Albania to identify motivation for learning English. A 31-item survey was done based on classroom-administration to find out interest and inclination of the students towards learning English and to clarify how they were motivated instrumentally.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n2p150