%0 Journal Article
%T The Identification of Demotives in EFL University Students
%A Masoume Bahramy
%A Mahdi Araghi
%J International Journal of Basics and Applied Science
%D 2013
%I Insan Akademika Publications
%X Demotives, the opposite side of motives, dramatically affect EFL learners. The learners, once motivated to learn English, lose their interest and energy so that learning English would transform into a suffering and time-consuming task. The present study, conducted among payam-Nour1. University English students was an effort made to investigate whether the students apparently highly-motivated to learn English have experienced challenges demotivating them from learning English and if so, what are the major causes of demotivation/ discouragement ¨Cbeing prevalent among Payam Nour University English students? 60 junior English student ¨C predominately female students were asked to write a short essay on their experiences of demotivation throughout their English studies. To derive authentic data, students received no prior orientation or pre-judgment on the issue and to avoid any difficulty in writing, they were asked to write in their own native language ¨Ci.e. Persian.
%K amotivation
%K demotivation
%K demotives
%U http://insikapub.com/Vol-01/No-04/15IJBAS(1)(4).pdf