TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taşkın,Esra
AU  - Yavuz,Mehmet Ali
TI  - RESEARCH INTO TURKISH EFL LEARNERS’  ACHIEVEMENT REGARDING THEIR INTRINSIC – EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION, ATTENDANCE AND  GENDER
PY  - 2023///
KW  -  English language
KW  - Dissertations, Academic
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Foreign speakers
N1  - Thesis (MA) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research English Language Teaching Department; Includes bibliography (sheets 48-57)
N2  - ABSTRACT
The current study aimed to investigate Turkish university students’ achievement in 
English as foreign language in terms of their intrinsic-extrinsic motivation, attendance 
and gender factors.
The study process was initiated after the researcher obtained the necessary permission 
from the ethics committee of Cyprus Science University. 363 students voluntarily 
participated in the study. The participants were the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year university 
students taking English as a compulsory course in a private University in TRNC 
(Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus). The data were collected from the participants 
by the fall semester of 2022 – 2023 academic year. Data consists of the students' final 
exam scores, attendance and results of the questionnaire that provides the levels of 
students' intrinsic-extrinsic motivation and demographic information. To obtain 
information about the participants’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, a motivation 
scale was used after getting permission from the researchers, Karayazgan & Saraçoğlu, 
(2021).
According to the result of the present study, the mean difference between the 
achievement of the higher and the lower attendance groups wasfound to be statistically 
very significant, and the correlation between the students’ attendance and their 
achievement was calculated and a significant small positive relationship was found. In 
spite of the very significant difference between the aforementioned groups in terms of 
their attendance and achievement, the correlation between the participants’ attendance 
and achievement is not very high. This can be attributed to the students’ background 
language education and the time they allocated to study English outside the classroom. 
As there is no significant difference between the two groups in terms of their intrinsic 
and extrinsic motivation, it can be said that EFL students’ attendance plays an 
important role in their achievement. In addition, it was found that the intrinsic 
motivation of the students who attended the course regularly was higher than their 
extrinsic motivation. Considering the two different results about gender, it can be said 
that there is no relationship between attendance and gender, but there is a significant 
relationship between achievement and gender.
Keywords: Achievement, Attendance, Extrinsic Motivation - Intrinsic Motivation,
,Gender, Turkish University EFL Students
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