A study of relationship between learning-related behavior and language motivation of engineering undergraduates

Abstract

this study aimed at investigating the relationship between engineering undergraduates language learning motivation and their learning-related behavior, with a comparison between students of both genders. The sample included 98 engineering undergraduate students from Universiti Malaysia Perlis, attending the Foundation English course in 2013. The instruments included a set of questionnaire and two parallel vertsions of the Quick Placement Test (QPT) provided by University Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate. The collected data were analyzed by Pearson's correlation and t-test. The findings indicated that learners' learning-related behavior had a positive relationship with their language learning motivation, both as a whole and individually, with significant correlation at the 0.01 level. In addition, male and female students were not significantly different in their motivation to learn English.