Turkish High School Students' English Demotivation and Their Seeking for Remotivation: A Mixed Method Research

Autor/in	Akay, Cenk
Titel	Turkish High School Students' English Demotivation and Their Seeking for Remotivation: A Mixed Method Research
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 10 (2017) 8, S.107-122 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Learning Motivation; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Learning Processes; Teaching Methods; Mixed Methods Research; Student Attitudes; Language Attitudes; Language Teachers; Teacher Student Relationship; Oral Language; Educational Technology; Scores; Questionnaires; Content Analysis; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; Learning process; Lernprozess; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülerverhalten; Sprachverhalten; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Unterrichtsmedien; Fragebogen; Inhaltsanalyse; Türkei
Abstract	Since Gardner introduced the importance of motivation on Language 2 learning, the concept has been accompanied with three more relevant concepts; amotivation, demotivation and remotivation. This paper mainly focused on high school students' de-motivation and remotivation in English. De-motivation is a set of factors which decreases the motivation level of the learners and re-motivation is an attempt to overcome those de-motivating factors. English learning-teaching process has been a problematic issue for a long time in Turkey. While there are researches focusing on the de-motivating factors in many countries, such a research for Turkish high school students has not been found. This research aimed to fill this research gap and to determine the English demotivation level of the students and the demotivating factors for them and to put forth suggestions to re-motivate the learners. An explanatory design was used as a mixed method research design. The sample was constituted of 579 students. Research results revealed that demotivation level of high school students in English is quite high, their motivation decreases most in high school period. Lack of interest in English, attitude of course teacher, classroom environment and course materials are among demotivating factors. In addition, the students request that, for remotivation, courses should be entertaining, technological tools should be utilized more and frequency of speaking activities should be increased. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01