The role of motivation in the learning of Spanish by Romanian university students
The role of motivation in the learning of Spanish by Romanian university students
Author(s): Anda Lucia Ciltan, Victor-Emanuel CiuciucSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Adult Education, Higher Education , Educational Psychology, Philology, Distance learning / e-learning
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Motivation; affective factors; foreign language learning;
Summary/Abstract: Lately, student’s motivation in the classroom has been marked as a prominent topic within the field of linguistics, due to its impact on the overall performance of the learner. The motivational framework proposed by Dörnyei (1994) represents one of the main models that included this affective learning factor and stands as foundation of the present paper. According to him, there are three dimensions of motivation: the social one that encompasses integrative and instrumental motivation, the personal one that includes the need for achievement and self-confidence and the educational one that integrates the teacher-specific and the course-specific motivation. Hence, since motivation is considered an important factor in learning a foreign language, the present paper intends to observe these dimensions in Romanian university students who are learning Spanish gender-wise and to construe relevant teaching implications. Overall, the study corroborates previous research, which proved that female students show higher motivation levels than males.
Journal: Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication
- Issue Year: 11/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 8-24
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
