Özet:

Motivation is such a complex term which cannot be explained just with one word. There are many factors that affect language learners’ motivation. Based on my own experience in English language teaching university level English language learners in Turkey seem very willing to learn English. They regularly attend English classes and they seek for private English language courses. For this reason, it sounds interesting to understand which scales contribute to the English language learning motivation of the participants. This study aims to find the factors that affect adult language learners’ motivation at a university – affiliated vocational school in the west of Turkey through a questionnaire with 26 items and 200 participants. The results of the study indicate that instrumental orientation for future expectations, integrative orientation, like, enjoyment and desire, foreign residence, favourable attitudes to target culture, instrumental orientation to be respected by others and anxiety are the factors that affect participants’ motivation in language learning. In addition to this, factor scores indicate that the most important factor for the participants is instrumental orientation for future expectations and the least important factor is anxiety. The results of the study provide an insight related to instrumental and integrative orientations of the participants and some other motivational factors related to foreign residence, like and enjoyment of learning English and anxiety.

Anahtar Kelimeler: