Motivation in Learning English as a Foreign Language: The Case of Congolese Students

Ilunga Bwana Norbert

Abstract


Motivation is a widely debated topic in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) or in Foreign Language (FL) learning. The interest in studying motivation is that it impacts positively or negatively the learning process. Most studies developed theories according to which learners of English as a foreign Language (EFL) have instrumental motivation; and only very few researches diverge from this view. Such research has not yet been conducted on EFL learners whose main subject is English be it literature or linguistics, and most importantly never in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where English is also taught as an FL. This in fact is the purpose of the present research paper, where both integrative and instrumental motivations have been found to be high almost at the same level in all the students whose major subject at college is English.


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motivation, integrative, instrumental, EFL

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