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What Motivate Sudanese Students to Learn English as a Foreign Language?
Elham Izeddin Yahia
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2015.11.013
St. John’s University, New York City, USA
While there are several research studies that planned to discover what drives students’ motivation to learn English as a foreign/second language, to our knowledge there have been no pragmatic studies in the field of EFL that examined Sudanese college-level students learning motivation. This study, therefore, intends to investigate Sudanese college-level students’ motivation and its correlation to student’s achievement. With strong emphasis on motivation, this study is, also examining the relationship between students’ motivation and achievement when learning English as foreign language. The participants in this study were college-level students in Sudan. The data was collected from 60 college level students. This quantitative study employed both Pearson Correlation methods of analysis as well as ANOVA Regression analysis. The results of this study revealed that there is strong correlation between students’ motivation and students’ achievement.
motivation, English as a foreign language, Sudanese students, college level, achievement
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