Azhang Halakooie

Investigating the Relationship between Student Motivation and Demotivation and L2 Motivational Self System and Improvement Of Iranian IELTS Candidates Speaking

Abstract This study has endeavored to unearth the relationship between Iranian students motivation demotivation and their speaking skill Additionally the relationshipbetween their L2 motivational self system and the improvement of their speakingskill And finally the relationship between their motivation demotivation and theirL2 motivational self system Considering the available literature the internalstructure of language motivation has been greatly debated and widely researched Nevertheless regarding the breadth and depth of the issue we inevitably concludethat a lot has remained to be fully dealt with Moreover motivation as an underlyingconstruct can be tangibly manifested in a productive skill like speaking To set outthe study 100 intermediate students who were also IELTS candidates in Namilanguage institute Isfahan Iran were selected through convenience sampling Thestudy was conducted in descriptive and experimental phases Qualitative researchprocedures were applied for data collection by administering certain questionnairesand tasks which are delineated in the body of thesis Then they were completed bysubsequent quantification and interpretation of the coded data The findings revealedthat the relationship between students demotivation and their speaking skill isnegative but significant in other words the more demotivated the students the lowerscores they received Regarding their L2 motivational self system the study showedthat students L2 self system had a significant effect on their speaking skill The studyalso found a reciprocal relationship between students motivation demotivation andtheir L2 motivational self system All the findings will be elaborated in the body ofthe thesis Keywords Speaking skill Motivation Demotivation L2 Motivational Self System vi