Malaysian Undergraduates’ Motivational Profiles : The Ideal L2 Learners and Motivated Learning Behaviour

• Main Author: Shanthi, Nadarajan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National University of Singapore 2019
• Subjects: L Education (General); LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools; P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/28472/1/Shanthi.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/28472/; http://e-flt.nus.edu.sg/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Drawing on cluster analysis to define and describe L2 adult learners’ motivational profiles, this study uses an L2 motivational construct to analyse and interpret L2 learners’ identities in the language classroom. The study explored seven broad motivational and attitudinal dispositions for learning...