A Psycholinguistic Study of Iraqi EFL University Students' Motivation and Attitudes Towards EFL Learning

Abstract

The paper is a demodulator quoted from an M.A. thesis entitled A Psycholinguistic Study of Iraqi EFL University Students' Self –Identity. It tries to find out whether or not EFL learning affects Iraqi EFL university students' motivation and their attitude towards EFL. First, the paper presents a brief presents a brief theoretical framework of attitude and motivation including their types and components. Second, to select the required data, a questionnaire has been exposed to 200 respondents to indicate the changes in their attitudes, feelings, behaviors as a consequence of studying EFL. A number of respondents have also been interviewed to find out their opinion about the phenomenon under study. The study findings show that EFL considerably influences Iraqi EFL university students' attitude towards EFL