Motivation of Higher Secondary Level Students Towards Learning English

Abstract

As the title Motivation of Higher Secondary Level Students Towards Learning English suggests, the present thesis was an attempt to find out the higher secondary Level learners’ motivation towards learning English .In order to collect the data, the researcher prepared forty closed ended question and six open ended questions. Fifty Higher Secondary Level Students and ten higher secondary schools were selected by using the purposive non-random sampling method from Kailali district and Students were selected from each school by using the same procedure. Questionnaires were distributed to the selected students with clear instructions. After collecting the data, they were processed, analyzed and interpreted. Majority of the learners were found to be highly motivated extrinsically and intrinsically in English learning. Students like English subject more than other subjects. Most of the students decided to learn English language due to its popularity , career advancement and others. They are motivated extrinsically and intrinsically to learn English. Different factors like good career prospects, good grades, better job, career advancement , security of future, exchange of culture, position in society, good economic condition, extra knowledge and enjoyment, opportunity to show ability, globalize thought, national development, high scope of English language and importance of English language were included to find out students perception towards motivation. So, there are various factors which lead the students towards learning English extrinsically and intrinsically. The thesis consists of five chapters; the first chapter consists of introduction, background of the study, statement of the problem, Objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study and delimitation of the study. The review of theoretical and empirical literature, implication of the study and conceptual framework are included in second chapter. The methods and procedures of the study incorporate research design, study population, sampling procedure, data collection tools, study area, data collection procedure, analysis and interpretation are in third one. Result, summary and discussion, are presented in chapter four and conclusion and recommendation are included in chapter five.