The Effects of Motivation on Female EFL Students' Language Proficiency

Abstract

This paper presented the results of a study which was carried out to identify the relationship between EFL female students’ motivation and learning the English language. The study investigated two types of  motivation : internal and external. The study sample consisted of 102 English majored female students at Yarmouk University, Jordan. A two section questionnaire was used for data collection. The findings showed that the subjects’ are internally motivated for learning the English language. And there was a positive relationship between students’ internal motivation and their proficiency in English as a foreign language. On the other hand, data for the students’ external motivation revealed that there was a counterproductive relationship between external motivation and proficiency in learning English.

Keywords: EFL, Motivation, Internal motivation, External motivation, Jordan