Design and Validation of an Instrument to Analyze High School Student’s Motivation to Learn English
Keywords:
Motivation, English, L2, High school, EFL
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Abstract
This paper describes the construction of a research instrument to determine motivation under the Self Motivational System for L2 proposed by Dörnyei (2009) by using a 6-points Likert scale and adapted to Spanish from the questionnaire proposed by Taguchi and others (2009). This questionnaire has 51 items and went through different validity criteria (clarity of the questions, pertinent and intelligible items), also achieved the reliability of the dimensions with the support of the Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient. The final version of the instrument was applied to a sample of 690 high school students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in which the reliability of the questionnaire was obtained (reaching a Cronbach's Alpha coefficient greater than 0,7 in most of the dimensions). The results show a reliable questionnaire to determine some aspects that affect motivation under the Self Motivational System for L2.
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