Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Education King Faisal University Graduation Project First Draft Motivations of Learning English as a Second Language in Fortieth High School in Riyadh City Name: Ebtesam Zayed Al-Zahrani Academic Number: 212597671 Under the supervision of: Dr. Zahraa Elshahat Table of Content Page Number Section 3 Abstract 3 Introduction 3,4,5 Literature Review 5 Significance of Research 5 Research Questions 6 Research Methodology 6 Ethical Considerations
learning English as second language have became a significant aim of most people globally with different thoughts,situations ,culture and personality . According to previous studies there are two main kinds of motivation : Integrative and Instrumental . In this research we are going to investigate the motives of university Saudi students to learn English in Saudi Arabia . A questionnaire have given to a group of them with different majors and gender to select the most four motivation to learn English
results revealed that the difficulty of English, the fear of making mistakes, losing face with friends when speaking or reading English, the difficulty in memorizing English vocabulary seemed to be the greatest contributors to students’ demotivation in English learning. To begin with, despite the awareness of the necessity of English in this modern life, the majority of the students both in the questionnaires and the interviews perceived English as a difficult language to master because of its complicated
ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHIC SYSTEM MODIFICATION English is a West Germanic language related to Scots, Dutch, Frisian and German, is one of the most used actual languages in the world. However, English’s orthographic system has been reformatted three times; these changes are placed in three different periods: Old English, Middle English and Modern English (Ager, 1998) this happened due to the necessity of solve the orthography depth, which indicates the one-to-one letter-phoneme correspondence and some
During childhood, language acquisition is a natural consequence of prolonged exposure to a language. A spoken language need not be formally taught to a child in order to be learned. (By contrast, written language must always be taught.) Any small child will acquire native fluency in any language if exposed to it on a consistent basis in a social setting. A child will naturally acquire native fluency in more than one language under these circumstances. In the overwhelming majority of individuals
Cognizant to the low performance of the students in NAT, the Department of Education Secretary Armin A. Luistro (2012) underscored that it is important to consider the reading capability of students because reading is the foundation of all academic learning. Hence, if pupils fail to master basic reading skills at the outset, consequently, they would have a constant struggle to other disciplines. Thus, depriving them of the chance to become literate and productive individuals (The Philippine Star
Abstract: The aim of the current study was to investigate the reasons behind Saudi learners’ poor reading skills. To this end, the objectives were to identify the reading habits of Saudi English as a Foreign Language high school learners, to understand the extent to which Saudi high learners use reading comprehension skills and to explore the perceptions of learners, teachers and supervisors regarding Saudi learners’ reading abilities. The study sample consisted of 40 Saudi high school students
teacher-related factors which contributed to students’ demotivation in the language classroom, the study found that teachers seldom conduct variety of activities, teachers’ ways of conveying knowledge are boring and uncreative, teachers’ pronunciation of English is poor were among the most influential factors. Firstly, quite a lot of students admitted that they had problem with their teachers’ poor pronunciation of English (e.g. wrong or bad pronunciation, intonation, etc.) (item 12). Some students
2.1 MOTIVATION The term motivation is derived from a Latin verb movere, which means ‘to move’. When a person does something, he makes choices, does the action and put in his effort in. What actually moves him to make certain choices, to do the action, to make effort and to continue the action, are some of the core questions for theorizing a motivational theory and to initiate its research. However, these simple questions have produced a rich theory and research on the topic, on which a considerable
role in learning a language and it is one of the important language components in developing oral and written communication skills. English vocabulary is vast; learning all words in English is next to impossible. Nevertheless, vocabulary instruction is facilitated at the primary and secondary levels. At tertiary level, students who learn English for a specific purpose are given vocabulary instruction specific to their area. For instance, students in an engineering college learn technical vocabulary