The Role of Learner’s Attitude and Motivational Environment in Mastering Vocabulary-A Case Study, Faculty of Arts, Missallatta
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Language, Attitude, Environment, Intrinsic Motivation, Mastering VocabularyAbstract
Mastering vocabulary is all about the attitude and the aptitude of the EFL/ESL learner, in all cases. Intrinsic motivation always remains the X factor in the course of possessing any non-native language. This research focuses on the learners’ personal ability and choice of learning outside native language learning environment. This study attempts to investigate the hidden psychological obstacles that have been standing between the language learners and their goal in Libyan context as the study population for this survey has been carefully chosen from the EFL Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Missallatta, Al-Mergib University. However, language learning is intimately related to intrinsic motivation, in other words learner’s attitude . Apparently, it will create a ‘win-win’ situation for all levels of learners in the class. Therefore, the current work focuses on the language motivational level among the Libyan EFL UG students. The researchers have taken up the traditional task of paper based questionnaire, comprising very comprehensive questions (10) distributed among (25) respondents, randomly selected from all levels of EFL undergraduates in order to gather the data on the scale of four options, such as: Agree/Strongly Agree/ Disagree/ Strongly Disagree. Eventually, the subsequent result analysis produced the desired result, more or less, close to the early assumptions of the survey that learner’s individual interest and internal motivation play a considerable role in grabbing language and mastering powerful vocabulary. It could also expose the fact that there was not much gap among the respective academic levels of Under Graduation (I,II,III & IV years) in realising the significance of the motivation at any level to achieve the highest goal of mastering vocabulary, as most of their responses, overwhelmingly, wedged to first two options of ‘Agree/Strongly Agree’, which are predominantly emphasising the learners’ inclination to be masters of words.
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