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2022 - Volume 6 - Number 2

Motivational Factors Between Individuals with Different Learning Goals for Acquiring English at Different Levels

Hanna Flores-Enríquez * hanna_karina11@outlook.es * ORCID: 0000-0002-8250-0281
University of Guanajuato, Division of social sciences and humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Open Journal for Psychological Research, 2022, 6(2), 21-30 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojpr.0602.02021f
Received: 7 November 2022 ▪ Revised: 21 December 2022 ▪ Accepted: 29 December 2022

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Motivation is an important factor for successful learning. However, the teaching methods, activities, strategies and content influence in the development and direction of students’ motivation. With a narrative approach which categorizes the experiences of each of the participants; supported by a quantitative approach, by showing quantitative data to have a broad view of the data collected. This research study collects the opinions of 4 participants from the University of Guanajuato who take English language classes as a graduation requirement showing that language learning approaches reflect an important effect on students’ motivation being a complement to the learning objectives. Thus, increasing the motivation of the students to continue with the process of acquiring and learning a second language.

KEY WORDS: motivation, teaching approaches, second language acquisition and learning, English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Hanna Flores-Enríquez, University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO. E-mail: hanna_karina11@outlook.es.

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