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Table 4.11
The Summary of the Independent T-Test between Male and Female Respondents in their Intrinsic Motivation in Acquiring English as a Second Language
Levene's Test for Equality of Variances
t-test for Equality of Means
F
Sig.
t
df
Equal variances assumed
2.554
.124
.312
22
Equal variances not assumed
.312

18.594

The returned p-value, 0.758, reveals that there is no significant difference between the female (M= 4.45, SD= 0.25) and male groups (M= 4.41, SD= 0.40) and the small difference in means seen in Table 4.10 between the male group and the female group is most likely due to chance.

4.4 Participants' Responses through Interviews

This section shows the opinions given by participants regarding their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in acquiring English as a second language. The opinions given are cross-validated with the results obtained from the questionnaire.

10 respondents were asked to answer four questions related to motivation in order to gather more information to support the data collected through questionnaire (see Appedix B for full transcriptions on the interviews).
Question 1: Is motivation an important factor in acquiring English as a second language? Why is that so?

9 out of 10 interviewees agree that motivation is indeed an important factor in acquiring English as a second language. Below are the direct quotes taken from two of the interviewees:

Yes, I think motivation is an important factor in acquiring English as a second language because motivation is the drive that can overcome the difficulties one would face when learning English for example L1 influence and English itself is a very special languageor example its grammar, inconsistencies in the tenses used (F2, 2012).

Yes, Motivation is important because is like some sort energy that pushes someone to do something. If there is no motivation, I don't think a person will learn English as a second language, they could have stick to their own comfortable language such as their mother tongue. (F4, 2012).

One of the participants did not think that motivation is important in acquiring English as a second language because he feels that it is something that a person has to do, with or without motivation. He said that:or me it is not necessary

Question 2: Which type of motivation (extrinsic or intrinsic motivation) plays a bigger role in acquiring English as a second language?

For this question, three female respondents think that intrinsic plays a bigger role in acquiring English as a second language and two female respondents feel that extrinsic motivation plays a bigger role. The respondents explained by saying:

but intrinsic more than extrinsic because of grades and stuff intrinsic is more important because if it doesn't come from inside you, you won't be able to do it because our heart is not there. ( F5, 2012 ).

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