Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia

Many nations have addressed the need to produce graduates who are multilingual in the effort to compete in the global society. Malaysia has acknowledged the importance of proficiency in a third language in order to develop human capital that drives the keconomy as well as competes in the internat...

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Main Authors:	Ainol Madziah Zubairi, Isarji Hj Sarudin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbitan UKM 2009
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2309/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2309/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2309/1/Vol.9_issue2_%285%29.pdf

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spelling	ukm-23092016-12-14T06:31:14Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2309/ Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia Ainol Madziah Zubairi, Isarji Hj Sarudin, Many nations have addressed the need to produce graduates who are multilingual in the effort to compete in the global society. Malaysia has acknowledged the importance of proficiency in a third language in order to develop human capital that drives the keconomy as well as competes in the international arena. This study investigated Malaysian students’ motivation to learn a foreign language. Triangulation of methods consisting of survey questionnaire, document analysis and focus group discussion were employed for data collection. A survey based on a 16-item questionnaire was formulated and more than 500 students from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) responded to the survey. Responses to the survey were subjected to the Rasch and descriptive analyses in order to capture salient features of students’ responses. The findings of the study indicate that UKM and UiTM students were extrinsically and intrinsically motivated to learn a foreign language. The results of the t-test, however, indicate a significant difference in terms of the motivation of students from the two universities Penerbitan UKM 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2309/1/Vol.9_issue2_%285%29.pdf Ainol Madziah Zubairi, and Isarji Hj Sarudin, (2009) Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 9 (2). pp. 73-87. ISSN 1675-8021 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema
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description	Many nations have addressed the need to produce graduates who are multilingual in the effort to compete in the global society. Malaysia has acknowledged the importance of proficiency in a third language in order to develop human capital that drives the keconomy as well as competes in the international arena. This study investigated Malaysian students’ motivation to learn a foreign language. Triangulation of methods consisting of survey questionnaire, document analysis and focus group discussion were employed for data collection. A survey based on a 16-item questionnaire was formulated and more than 500 students from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) responded to the survey. Responses to the survey were subjected to the Rasch and descriptive analyses in order to capture salient features of students’ responses. The findings of the study indicate that UKM and UiTM students were extrinsically and intrinsically motivated to learn a foreign language. The results of the t-test, however, indicate a significant difference in terms of the motivation of students from the two universities
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author_facet	Ainol Madziah Zubairi, Isarji Hj Sarudin,
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title	Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia
title_short	Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia
title_full	Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia
title_sort	motivation to learn a foreign language in malaysia
publisher	Penerbitan UKM
publishDate	2009
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2309/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2309/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2309/1/Vol.9_issue2_%285%29.pdf
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Motivation to learn a foreign language in Malaysia

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