A descriptive study of the motivation (instrumental & integrative) as a major drive for the learning of english language at graduate and post graduate level in Pakistan
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2015
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University of Management and Technology Lahore
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The research project examines the type of motivation (instrumental & integrative) working as a driving force for the learning of English language in Pakistan at graduate and post graduate levels. The emerging trend of English language learning at a high rate calls forth to answer the question such as why learners are so ambitious to learn this language in the presence of a national language. Secondly, if they are learning English language, what is the kind of motivation urging them to learn it. The theoretical framework of the study comprises the literature related to the famous researches of R C Gardener and Wallace Lambert in the field of second language learning motivation conducted in the middle of 19th century. These researchers came up with the view that there are two types of motivation i.e. Instrumental and integrative motivation which work as driving force for the learning of any second language.
Following the assumption of Gardner’s theory of L2 learning motivation the present study explored the type of motivation for English language learning (ELL). The research is descriptive in nature and data was collected through survey questionnaire. The questionnaire was adapted from Attitude motivation Test Battery AMTB developed by R. C Gardner (1985). The findings of the study show that English language learners at graduate and post graduate levels are highly instrumentally motivated. That means they learn English language as a means to attaining social, economic and educational success and not as a means in itself. The evidence gathered through statistical analyses also supported the view that English language learners in Pakistan are instrumentally motivated.
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Supervised by:Prof. Rao Jaleel Ahmad
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Motivation, Instrumental motivation, M.Phil Thesis