Factors Influencing Kurdish EFL Undergraduate Students' Motivation
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https://doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v8n1y2025.pp403-410Keywords:
EFL, EFL Learning, Motivation, Internal Factors, External FactorsAbstract
Research indicates that motivation greatly influences EFL learning outcomes and students’ learning performance. Hence, the more research is done on this subject, the better it became for both teachers and students to sharpen their performances in EFL teaching and learning. This research aims to find out what the main factors are that influence the motivation of Kurdish undergraduate students positively. This study mainly focuses on the effect of external factors that affect undergraduate EFL students’ motivation. To some extent, the study also focuses on the internal factors that may have a correlation with undergraduate EFL students’ motivation. 70 undergraduate EFL students were chosen from the College of Basic Education/Department of English Language as participants for this study, alongside 10 of their teachers. The study employs a quantitative research method, depending on two sets of questionnaires to collect data. The results show that the majority of the students have a positive outlook on learning English. The results also showed that among the many factors affecting the EFL learning process by the students are: teachers’ themselves and the way they manage their classrooms, and then the learning experience. Moreover, the perspective of the teachers was also positive because they want their learners to learn English in the best way possible.
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