Investigating the Influence of Covid-19 Lockdown on EFL Students' Motivation; the Case of Third-Year-Students at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
| dc.contributor.author | AMAZOUZ, Lydia | |
| dc.contributor.author | SEBIH, Kamelia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-30T13:05:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-30T13:05:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-12 | |
| dc.description | 63p. ; Ill. en coul. ; 30cm+(cd) | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The current dissertation is mainly concerned with the investigation of the impact of covid-19 lockdown on the motivation of third year students of English. First of all, this research aims at obtaining a better understanding of how students’ interest in learning was affected during the pandemic-related confinement and school closures. For the second objective, it strives to identify the main factors that impacted students’ will to learn while being confined and whether this impact was positive or negative. In order to fulfill our research aims, and gain a detailed insight about our topic, we relied on some valuable works that dealt with motivation among them Dornyei and Otto (1998) motivation in action: A process model of L2 motivation. In addition to this, we have designed two adequate questionnaires for both third year students and some teachers of English at the department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, as well as a structured interview with six teachers in the academic year 2020/2021. For the sake of analyzing the data collected from these questionnaires, we adopted for the mixed-method approach; combining both quantitative and qualitative procedures of data gathering and data analysis. The results obtained from the students’ questionnaire reveal that the majority of them were negatively influenced by the covid-19 lockdown; as a matter of fact, over (53%) of the learners who were asked about the state of their learning motivation, answered that they were not motivated at all, while only (8.51%) pointed that they were very motivated during the imposed distance learning. Accordingly, this demotivation is mainly linked to the sudden shift from presential learning to E-learning which heavily altered the students’ usual ways of studying and provoked in them feelings of helplessness, anxiety and discouragement. In addition to this, the lack of direct contact between the learners and their teachers made them feel alone and unsupervised. Moreover, the absence of the adequate online teaching materials and equipments was also an important factor behind the students’ decrease of will to learn. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Language and Communication | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/19292 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou | en |
| dc.subject | Covid-19 lockdown, distance learning, students’ motivation. | en |
| dc.title | Investigating the Influence of Covid-19 Lockdown on EFL Students' Motivation; the Case of Third-Year-Students at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |