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- Title
Parents, Teachers and Peers Effects on College Students' Motivational Intensity to Learn English.
- Authors
Olusiji, Lasekan
- Abstract
The significant roles of human motivational factors such as parents, peers and teachers in influencing students to learn English have generated so much attention among scholars over the years. However, very few empirical research have been carried out to determine the effect of each motivational component on students' motivational intensity which is a parameter to measure the level of effort students' exert on English language learning. The aim of this paper is to investigate the level of motivation and support students' receive from each human factor and how each of the factors affects students' motivational intensity. The data obtained through survey questionnaire administered to 46 students comprises of both second year pre-university and first year degree students showed that teachers' factor is perceived to be the most influential component while the most highly correlative human factor with students' motivational intensity is parents. This suggests that students' effort towards learning of English is as a result of parental encouragement even though teacher is perceived to play the most significant role in motivating students to learn English.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC motivation; ENGLISH language education for foreign speakers in universities &; colleges; ENGLISH as a foreign language; PARENT-student relationships; PARENT participation in education
- Publication
Language in India, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 4, p61
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article