THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT MOTIVATION TO LEARN ENGLISH AND THEIR GRAMMAR TEST SCORES
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT MOTIVATION TO LEARN ENGLISH AND THEIR GRAMMAR TEST SCORES

Summary/Abstract: Motivation is an important factor in acquiring any language and in learning a foreign language. The students’ proficiency of a language depends on their motivation to learn all aspects of a language, grammar included. It may be said that, in schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, too much emphasis is placed on learning grammar, and that, despite the current trends in teaching, grammar is still considered a predominant factor by which someone’s knowledge of a language is assessed. The present study aims to investigate whether there is any correlation between the achievement in a grammar test taken by the first through fourth year university-level students of English as a foreign and their motivation to learn and acquire the language knowledge. The chief hypothesis is that such a correlation does exist. The assumption, not tested in the present paper though, is that the correlation is due to the traditional view of the importance of grammar held by the majority high school teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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