Motivation and attitudes towards english language learning tertiary education: a contrastive approach to undergraduate response to english as a core subject in the engineering and humanities degrees

Abstract

Motivation continues to play a major role in the area of EFL/ESL learning due to the fact that students’ attitudes towards learning a foreign language often result to be the predictors of further success or failure. The present research paper aims at comparing the motivation patterns towards learning the English language shown by EFL Engineering students from the Technical University of Madrid, on the one hand, and Modern Languages Humanities students of the Complutense University of Madrid, on the other.