Faculty Member, Department of English Language, Alzahra University
Abstract
Motivation has been widely accepted by both teachers and researchers as one of the primary factors that influences FL/ SL learning. Beiliving so, its relationship with other variables has been the point of investigation in this study. The present study tries to investigates the relationship between Iranian Undergraduate English Major (IUEM) students’ motivation for English language learning and different variables including: university, gender, type of study ( private /public) , job (employment/ unemployment), year of study (freshmen to seniors), and age . The results indicate that none of the above-mentioned variables play any role in the learners’ motivation in English language learning but one. The only variable which plays a role in the degree of motivation is the year of study. Surprisingly, freshmen are significantly more motivated than seniors.
