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Motivation and E-Learning English as a foreign language: A qualitative study.

Fredy Geovanni Escobar Fandiño | Luz Dary Muñoz | Angela Juliette Silva Velandia
Heliyon | 2019

The motivation to learn a foreign language is a complex process. According to the Ministry of National Education of Colombia -MEN-, speaking English is a generic competence to be developed at all educational levels. In this regard and based on the Theory of Self-Determination -SDT-, this qualitative phenomenological study aims to identify and analyse the aspects related to the motivation to learn English in undergraduate students of the Virtual and Distance modalities -E-Learning-. The main instrument used for data collection was a semi-structured individual interviews. The participants in the research were a group of 16 women and 3 men. The analysis was carried out through semantic categorizations and with the support of NVivo 11 software, which lets assume that motivation for learning English is strongly influenced by external factors.

Pubmed ID: 31528742

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Software suite for qualitative data analysis for text-based data and higher-order forms of data. Various packages are available and are dependent on the system used and the type of data analysis needed.

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