The Motivation of Sindhi Female Students from Lower Socio-Economic Status to Learn English Language

Abstract

This research study aims to investigate the motivation of Sindhi speaking female students to learn English language, belonging to lower socio economic status .English is a language which is gateway to many opportunities .People globally have witnessed the worth of acquiring this language skills. This is the reason that despite having emotional attachment with their mother tongue language, the learner is motivated to learn this foreign/second language. She can be interactively or instrumentally motivated. It is worth researching that whether the Sindhi speaking female students from lower socio-economic status are motivated or not and what is their motivation orientation (integrative or instrument) to learn English. To conduct this research, quantitative research method was used. A questionnaire was developed by the researcher to collect data based on Attitude and Motivation Test Battery (AMTB). Total numbers of fifty Sindhi speaking female students from lower socio- economic class were chosen randomly as the participants of this study. All the participants were students. The data findings revealed that the participants were motivated to learn English irrespective of the socio economic issues faced by them. However; they were more instrumentally motivated than they had integrative motivation to learn English. Thus the results revealed that the participants gave more preference to the perceived practical benefits of learning English.