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The purpose of this study is to identify whether it is extrinsic motivation or intrinsic motivation which drives the English Language students in a private university in Malaysia to acquire English as their second language. The results from this study will be useful to increase the lecturers' understanding on what motivates the students to learn English and thus help them improve the current English course structure and lesson plans.

Two research questions were developed in order to shape and direct this study. These questions seek to identify the motivations for acquiring English as a second language amongst the students and then distinguish the differences between the different years of study. The questions are:

Are the students more intrinsically motivated or are they more extrinsically motivated in acquiring English as their second language?

To what extent, if any, do English Language male and female students in the university differ in their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in acquiring English as a second language?

3.3 Participants

The participants in this study consist of 64 students from a private university in Perak. The students chosen are those who are undergoing Bachelor's Degree Programme in English Language regardless of which year they are from because this study seeks to understand the motivation that drives the students from the course in learning English as a second language. They ranged in age from 19 to 25, with a mean age of 22 years. The sample is composed by 20 (31%) male students and 44 (69%) female students. 14 (22%) of the total respondents are Year 1 students, 22 (34%) participants are from Year 2 and 28 (44%) of them are made up of Year 3 students.

They were chosen by using purposive sampling method because this study is focussing only on English Language students and so the samples selected are those who fit the criteria which are relevant to the research questions posed. In order to minimise unwanted variables, students who did not acquire English as their first language were chosen to participate in this study.

3.4 Instrumentations

The research instruments used in this research are in the form of questionnaire and interview. The first questionnaire (Part A) is used to understand the background of the participants. This part consists of three items namely age, gender and year of studies. This background information is collected to assist in the second research question which is needs information regarding the gender of the participants. Apart from that, the information regarding age and year of studies also important to make sure that the students from all three years of studies are involved in the survey conducted.

The second questionnaire (Part B), attempts to measure both Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation of students (see questionnaire in Appendix A). A valid and reliable instrument, the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) (Vallerand et al.,1992) that accurately examines motivation, was adapted to fulfil this task. This scale was chosen because it is 'the most comprehensive measure of the Extrinsic/Intrinsic dichot本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。