Naslov
Factors of successful language acquisition in students of the University of Zagreb - integrative and instrumental motivation

Autori
Jelovčić, Ines ; Pleše, Dubravka ; Miholjančan, Tina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), stručni

Izvornik
E-Proceedings of the tenth international language conference on the Importance of Learning Professional Foreign Languages for Communication between Cultures, 20-21 September 2018 / - Celje, 2019, 155-173

ISBN
978-961-286-252-7

Skup
10th International Language Conference: The Importance of Learning Professional Foreign Languages for Communication between Cultures

Mjesto i datum
Celje, Slovenija, 20.09.2018. - 21.09.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
integrative motivation, instrumental motivation, language acquisition, professional language learning.

Sažetak
It has long been known that there are many different factors that play a significant part in the process of language acquisition. Motivation is, by far, the most significant among them. Faced with a large number of students each year, many of whom have been studying English for the better part of their lives, we are always surprised to come across great differences that exist between learners of similar backgrounds, levels of education, similar histories. In our effort to discern the origins of such dissimilarities in the success of language acquisition, we decided to focus our research on the issue of motivation, specifically integrative and instrumental motivation and see how they affect the success of language learning. We conducted our research on several groups of first year students, from the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. The students were presented with a questionnaire and asked to rate their level of agreement/disagreement with a set of utterances connected with integrative and instrumental motivations for learning professional foreign language. The results of the survey are presented in this paper.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kognitivna znanost (prirodne, tehničke, biomedicina i zdravstvo, društvene i humanističke znanosti)

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