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Students’ Motivation and Academic Performance: A Case Study on the Learning of Russian as a Foreign Language in Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Nikitina, Larisa, and Furuoka, Fumitaka, (2005) Students’ Motivation and Academic Performance: A Case Study on the Learning of Russian as a Foreign Language in Universiti Malaysia Sabah. MANU, Jurnal Pusat Penataran Ilmu & Bahasa, 10 . pp. 92-105. ISSN 1511-1989

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Abstract

This study aims to examine how the nature of students’ motivation to learn a foreign language affects their academic performance. It is tentatively hypothesized in the present research that there exists a positive relationship between extrinsic motivation and the students’ performance while intrinsic motivation would feature less prominently in the students’ learning agendas. The participants in this study were 74 Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) first-year students who had been learning the Russian language for two semesters. The respondents were given questionnaires and asked to indicate their agreement/disagreement with the statements. There were also some open-ended questions. Factor analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, and contents analysis were used to analyse the students’ responses. The main finding of this study is that intrinsically motivated students tended to perform better than their extrinsically motivated peers. This finding supports the validity of the view that teachers and instructors should foster intrinsic motivation in their students.

Item Type:Journal
Keywords:Extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, foreign language learning, Malaysia
Subjects:P Language and Literature
L Education
ID Code:3046

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