Abstract:
This research aims at investigating the motivational and attitudinal factors
of university students towards English Language learning. A quantitative
method using a descriptive design had recommended for this study. A
questionnaire has been used as the data collection tool. The population of
the study consists of all third-year English language learners at colleges
of education and college of languages at Sudan University of Science and
Technology. Thus, sample size of (100) learners has been used 99 valid
responses were collected. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)
version 20 has been used for data analysis. The following are some of the
important findings based to data analysis and discussion of the collected
data: 1. Many factors have a positive effect on students' attitudes and
motivation to learn the English language. The most important ones
include having a good English language teacher positively affects their
attitudes to learn English, and Learning English is important, as it is one
of the requirements for high- education.2. Students were highly motivated
to learn the English language. There are many factors, motivate the
students, on top of the motivates factors is that, the need for traveling
around the world, and the second motivator is that, almost all students
confirm that, learning English makes them more knowledgeable as they
can be able to communicate. 3. Concerning their attitudes, the findings
indicated that the students had positive attitudes towards English
language learning.
