The Impact of On-line Learning on EFL Students’ Motivation to Learn English as a Foreign Language.

Abstract

Students’ motivation has been stressed for long in the field of education generally and in second/foreign anguage specially. The current study tends to explore the impact of online learning on the EFL students’ motivation to learn English as a foreign language; it aims to determine how the online learning affects the tudents’ motivation and whether the online learning decreases the EFL students’ motivation to learn or not. Accordingly, in the context of this study, two research questions are raised; the first is asked in order to know in which way online learning affects students’ motivation to learn English as a foreign language and the second is about clarifying if there is a negative impact of the online learning on EFL students’ motivation. In response to these questions, the descriptive method is opted for to collect the necessary data, a questionnaire is ministered to 80 EFL students at the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Mila, and another uestionnaire is administered to 7 teachers of English at the University of Mila .The major findings indicate that the EFL tudents’ motivation in online learning is indeed decreased and that the online learning has a negative impact on EFL students’ motivation. Eventually, the research work prefers a multiplicity of recommendation for pedagogy and future research with the purpose of placing more attention to learner’s motivation during online learning.