Exploring the Relationship between Students‟ Motivation and their Academic Performance

Abstract

n educational perspective, motivation is associated to learning and academic stimulation. At the university level motivation of students is vital in light of the fact that it is fundamental to their accomplishment and the professional life to be entered. In this study, the relationship between student‟s motivation and their academic performance is explored. The major objectives of this study were to examine the relationship between students‟ motivation and academic performance. It also aimed to determine the role of motivation in the academic performance of English as Foreign Language learners in the context of Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University, Jijel. It is hypothesized that, there is a positive significant relationship between students‟ motivation and their academic achievement. Moreover, It is hypothesized that motivation leads to high study efforts, which leads to better academic performance .In order to check and verify the validity of our hypotheses two questionnaires were used, the first one were submitted to fourteen (14) teachers at the department of English, and the other was given to sixty (60) master one students at the same department. The findings of this study have shown that there is a positive relationship exist between motivation and academic performance, they go hand in hand. In addition, the analysis of the results revealed that motivation plays an important role in increasing students‟ academic performance. So, the pre-set hypotheses were confirmed