The Impact of Low Motivation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) among the Undergraduate Students: Bangladesh perspective.

Abstract

Language is a medium of communication. Through language we express our feelings, emotions, thoughts, behaviours etc. To acquire second language is a big challenge in the context of Bangladesh (Graddo, 2006:22), in his study of global trends surrounding English, comments: 'One the one hand, the availability of English as a global language is accelerating globalization. On the other hand, the globalization is accelerating the use of English'. Bangladesh emerging as an economic powerful country. She has a huge population. The rate of educated people is tremendously rising. To be a part of the world we need skilled people who must be efficient in English otherwise we will lag behind. Keeping this in mind, English has been made a mandatory subject from primary to higher education.A number of methods and approaches have been being used to teach English but still target language cannot be acquired.There are a good number of reasons for this poor condition e.g. lack of local ELT practitioners, infrastructural limitation, class size, underpaid teachers, individual learner differences viz., age, sex, aptitude, motivation, cognitive style, learning strategies, and personality and so on. Among these low motivations of the students are supposed to be the sole cause of remaining unsuccessful in the target language. This study attempts to find out the causes of low motivation and the possible solutions in this regard. The study is qualitative in nature. The paper ends by recommending ways which would help students as well as teachers to overcome the problems regarding low motivation.