Investigation of the Level of Motivation on Students' Learning and Teachers’ Teaching English as a Foreign Language Focusing on Grade Nine at Menkorer General Secondary School in Debre Markos Town

Abstract

The focus of this study was to investigate the motivation levels of students and teachers in EFL learning and teaching focusing on grade nine. Forty students and eight teachers were selected for this study. Students were chosen randomly and all the teachers were taken comprehensively. For the interview four students (2 males and 2 females) were selected purposively to obtain the desired information. Survey method of analysis was employed. Questionnaires and semi structured interview were tools to gather data. Questionnaire items were used to see the level of motivation ranged from 3.69 - 5.00 high level of motivation 2.35 - 3.68, moderate level of motivation and1.00 - 2.34 low level of motivation. The highest level of students motivation was observed for the many of the questions for instance, attitude to learn English and motivation intensity” Similarly, high scores were investigated for teachers. Generally many of students and teachers’ motivation were high. Therefore, the findings of this study revealed that students and teachers were highly motivated to learn and teach English as a foreign language respectively. According to the students’ responses for the interview, all of them confirmed that they had high interest to learn EFL, but they did not have confidence to speak out English language when they attended it, Finally, they promised to be confident and learn English to be benefited. Based on the findings obtained, the researcher recommended that motivation helps EFL learners and teachers in General Secondary School to improve their English language learning teaching process.