Role of the Motivation and anxiety in Learning English

Motivation has an important role for the learners in language learning. On the other hand, the study about motivation and anxiety in learning language have not been discussed adequacy. Motivation is a significant factor for engaging the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students in their learning process. According to Dornyei (۱۹۹۸), “some researchers agree that motivation is answerable for determining human performance by stimulating it and giving it direction. Engaging learners’ motivation could help them to have a way to achieve their dreams.On the other hand, English learning anxiety had little effect on English learning motivation for the dissimilar levels of language proficiency students, especially for students in the intermediate level. Communication is one of the elementary human nature. According to Levis (Lewis, Simons, & Fennig, ۲۰۱۴) English is the third most widely used languages in the world. So, English plays an important role to link with people all around the world. Gardner (۱۹۸۵) believes that learner’s motivation has long been recognized as one of the key factors affecting English language learning. The study is a literature review to find the students‟ motivation in learning English. Students had both high integrative and instrumental motivation to learn English and determine how and to what extent foreign language learning motivation and anxiety interact with each other that influence English language learning performances.

Keywords:

Motivation , language learning , communication , anxiety