Student Motivation
Introduction
Global Student Experience, Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l’Europe / European Students’ Forum (AEGEE), American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS), European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS) and Education Abroad Program (EAP). These are the most well-known study abroad programmes not just in Europe but in the whole world. These programmes provide opportunity for students, teachers and personnel to learn and work in a study abroad context. According to the programmes’ official websites, the participation increases the students’ mobility, develop their cultural awareness and give a useful and lifelong experience. The European Union expanded the borders in Europe, so nowadays it is much easier to spend a few months or even a year in a foreign university. The most popular study abroad programme in Hungary is ERASMUS. Between 1998 and 2008 more than 25,000 undergraduates had been studied in a foreign university from the 63 Hungarian universities. Although the study-abroad programme has bigger popularity in the celebrated institutions, almost every university and college have sent and received students. According to the home page of Tempus Public Foundation, in 2009 almost four hundred students participated in the programme in twenty-five European countries from the University of Pécs (UP). Besides, UP has student mobility contracts with universities from the United States of America and Japan too. Motivation is a significant point in learning issues especially in language learning. Motivation can be categorized in several ways. But the concept of motivation can be divided into two parts: the first one is language learning motivation; the second one is motivation to study abroad. Language learning motivation ‘involves the attitudes and affective states that influence the degree of effort that learners make to learn an L2’ (Ellis, 1997, p. 75). Study abroad motivation consists of
Global Student Experience, Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l’Europe / European Students’ Forum (AEGEE), American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS), European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS) and Education Abroad Program (EAP). These are the most well-known study abroad programmes not just in Europe but in the whole world. These programmes provide opportunity for students, teachers and personnel to learn and work in a study abroad context. According to the programmes’ official websites, the participation increases the students’ mobility, develop their cultural awareness and give a useful and lifelong experience. The European Union expanded the borders in Europe, so nowadays it is much easier to spend a few months or even a year in a foreign university. The most popular study abroad programme in Hungary is ERASMUS. Between 1998 and 2008 more than 25,000 undergraduates had been studied in a foreign university from the 63 Hungarian universities. Although the study-abroad programme has bigger popularity in the celebrated institutions, almost every university and college have sent and received students. According to the home page of Tempus Public Foundation, in 2009 almost four hundred students participated in the programme in twenty-five European countries from the University of Pécs (UP). Besides, UP has student mobility contracts with universities from the United States of America and Japan too. Motivation is a significant point in learning issues especially in language learning. Motivation can be categorized in several ways. But the concept of motivation can be divided into two parts: the first one is language learning motivation; the second one is motivation to study abroad. Language learning motivation ‘involves the attitudes and affective states that influence the degree of effort that learners make to learn an L2’ (Ellis, 1997, p. 75). Study abroad motivation consists of