The Influence of Integrative Motivations in Enhancing Learning English as a Foreign Language

Abstract

This study is about the influence of integrative motivation in enhancing foreign language learning. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the integratively motivated students are more successful than the instrumentally motivated students in terms of vocabulary and grammar. The objective of the study is to demonstrate why do some foreign languages learners learn the foreign language very quickly while some other learners are very slow in learning the language or they might end up in a complete failure. The subject of this study has drawn from Sudan University of Science and Technology, Department of English, second year students. The study used a quantitative method in the data collection. A questionnaire plus a test has in a number of 30 papers has been distributed to the second year students, at the English department. The results and findings of the study show that the integratively motivated students are more successful than the instrumentally motivated students in terms of grammar. But the instrumentally motivated students are more successful in vocabulary than the integratively motivated students. On the other hand the study demonstrates that most of the students who study English at Sudan University are more instrumentally oriented. The study was limited to Sudan University students, in a particular level (second year students), in a certain academic year 2015-2016. The subjects of the study were mainly females. The researcher recommends that the study can be extended to include larger number and in different levels. Also the researcher recommends that further researches have to be conducted in this area of motivation to get a clear cut view on which type of motivation that can affect on the learners more than the other ones and that the learners have to be encouraged to have that sort of motive.