AN INVESTIGATION ON THE ROLE OF CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT AND MOTIVATION TOWARDS STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE

Abstract

Learning environment and motivation are recognized as significant contributors in nurturing the students’ attitude. This study aimed to examine students’ attitude towards learning English language through classroom environment and student motivation at higher secondary level. The quantitative survey was conducted to find association and cause-&-effect relationships among the variables. Sampling technique (multi-stage) has been used to select enrolled students as sample-size. Population comprised of students. Three instruments were developed by scholar for data collection namely classroom learning environment scale, English language attitude and motivation for learning English questionnaire to measure attitude to learn English, motivation for the learning English and classroom learning environment. Thus, from the results, it is concluded that there is positive and significant association and effect among students’ attitude, classroom learning environment and motivation. So, it is suggested that qualitative study might be led to have in depth information for aforementioned variables to further validate the results.