The effects of motivation types (instrumental and integrative) on writing proficiency among iranian ielts candidates

The present study aimed at making a comparison between integratively motivated IELTS candidates and their instrumentally motivated peers in terms of their writing achievement. Moreover, the above-mentioned groups were compared based on their proficiency score on IELTS Test. In order to carry out the study, the participants of the study were chosen as 245 Iranian IELTS candidates who had initially taken the actual IELTS test in Iran. In addition to that, the questionnaire which was utilized by Laine (1987), to determine the type of motivation each participant possessed, was used. The obtained data formed two groups of 86 integrative and 110 instrumental candidates. Using the results obtained from the proficiency test, a one-way ANOVA was run. The result indicated that there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in so far as their proficiency was concerned and it therefore was concluded that the two groups were at the same level of proficiency. Moreover, the statistical analyses, using one-way ANOVA, revealed that there was no significant difference between the integratively oriented participants and instrumentally oriented ones as far as their writing was concerned.

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Instrumental and Integrative ,

Iranian ,

Motivation Types ,