The effects of motivation on listening skills of elt students

Khayrullina Maria Vasilievna

Motivation plays an important role in ELT, especially in listening skills, because motivation stimulates and encourages students while learning a foreign language. It also gives them a special direction and encourages them to move forward. The purpose of this study is to determine the motivation of students and their relationship to listening skills, as well as how they are motivated, internally or externally. This study attempted to find out the impact of motivation on the listening skills of 61 ELT freshmen at South Ural State University, during the 1st semester of the 2019\2020 academic year. The result of the study showed that students had different motivational factors for listening skills. The findings of the study showed that there is a relationship between motivation and listening skills, and the most common type of motivation is external motivation.

Keywords:motivation, motivational factor, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, the students, the skill of listening.