Open AccessA STUDY OF ATTITUDE AND MOTIVATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF HYDERABAD-KARNATAKA REGION
Author(s) -
U. K. Kulkarni Ranju T Nair
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.112
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 0033-3077
DOI - 10.17762/pae.v58i1.1640
Subject(s) - psychology , english language , mathematics education , positive attitude , test (biology) , significant difference , social psychology , mathematics , statistics , paleontology , biology
This study was attempted to investigate the attitude and motivation of English Language Learners at secondary school students of Hyderabad-Karnataka region. A standardized questionnaire was administered in the form of survey to 900 IX standard students from Hyderbad-Karnataka region (Bellary, Bidar, Kalabugi, Koppal,Raichur and Yadgir) to collect data regarding their motivation and attitude towards learning English Language.The collected data was statistically analyzed using suitable statistical methods like mean,standard deviation, t test,one way analysis of varience (ANOVA). The result revealed that there is a significant difference between the gender and locality of the school,type of school,type of management. This study recommended that the relevant language improvement programs and activities are also discussed in accordance with the students language difficulties as communicated in the open-ended questions to increase their motivation and attitude in English language.Hence it was concluded that more classroom activities in the study of English enhance pupils attitude and motivation to learn English