Comparing English language motivation of a project class students with a standard class in Turkey

The present study aims to compare sources of motivation and motivational problems between a project class and a standard class through a questionnaire. The research is conducted with 59 Turkish 6th graders in a state school in Istanbul. The weekly number of the English classes is 5 hours for the standard class and 11 hours for the project class. The questionnaire consists of four parts. The first part inquires about the participants’ age, gender and class. The second part asks the students about their sources of intrinsic, instrumental and integrative motivation in learning English. The third part explores the sources of motivation while taking English classes. The last part of the questionnaire examines sources of motivational problems. The results show that there are statistically significant differences between two groups in terms of sources of motivation and motivational problems. The standard class students are mildy positive about their sources of motivation while project class students strongly agree with this part. Moreover, the sources of instrumental and integrative motivational problems differ between two groups. The students of standard class highly rate at neutral whereas those of project class prefer negative or strongly negative option