Investigating University Students' Motivation and Attitudes Towards English Language Learning

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.