EFL Learners’ Gender Differences in Motivation: The Case of Krim Belkacem Secondary School at Draa Ben Khedda
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2016-06
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university Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The current investigation is mainly concerned with the role of gender in shaping
motivation of English foreign language learning. It attempts to determine whether there is a
difference between girls and boys in motivation when learning English as a foreign language.
It also meant to seek out the factors that lead learners to be motivated during language classes
and the other ones that hinder them from improving themselves. In addition, this study
emphasized the different motivational strategies used by teachers to increasetheir learners
motivation. The study has been carried out in Krim Belkacem Secondary School at Draa Ben
Khedda. To achieve these objectives, a mixed method research was used, combining both
quantitative and qualitative methods. Thus, a questionnaire was distributed to a total number
of one hundred learners including 50 girls and 50 boys; a structured interview was conducted
with five (5) English language teachers of the school, as well as fifteen (15) classroom
observations. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for statistical data
analysis while Qualitative Content Analysis served to interpret the results of the interview.
Relying on the results, it is clearly that gender is an unquestionable factor which has a
remarkable effect on EFL learning motivation, that is, girls are more motivated to learn
English as a foreign language than their counterparts. The results also pointed out that the
main factors for their motivation are “the enjoyment of learning” for girls and “the parental
encouragement” for boys, while their inhibiting factors are “the teacher behaviours” and “the
lack of interest” respectively. To increase learners’ motivation, different motivational
strategies were adopted and incorporated by EFL teachers.
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Langage et Communication