An Empirical Study of Motivation of Students for studying in Urdu and English Medium
Keywords:
Medium of instruction, Urdu Language, English Language, Students’ motivation, motivational orientations, language policyAbstract
In communication and in the transmission of knowledge, language plays a very important role. The goal of this research work to identify the motivation of students towards studying the Urdu as well as English medium instructions. The attributes of students get affected through the medium of instruction such as motivation of learning. The medium of instruction must be understandable for both teachers as well as students, which can make both of them satisfied in the process of learning. A native language must be used for teaching to make it effective learning and bring excellence. Followers of different languages also advocated that teaching must be mother or national language. The achievement of a person is the result of the motivation he or she receives. It is recommended that the students must be motivated by their teachers to learn and promote their positive attitude towards Urdu and English. At grass-root, level there must be satisfactory English medium that will make it effective as most of the students in Muslim countries have their medium of education as Urdu. A sample of 180 respondents in which 57.22% “male” and 42.78% “female” has been considered by a “standard questionnaire” created on five-point interval scale.
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