Investigating The Factors That Demotivate English Foreign Language Students

Résumé: Learners' motivation has long been identified as a crucial aspect affecting the rate of success and failure of second/foreign language acquisition. Demotivation, on the other hand, is seen as the total opposite of motivation, with negative effects for language learning processes and outcomes. This dissertation investigates the factors behind students demotivation. It aims to figure out the intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting learner?s motivation, and to determine which of these two types is the most common .Hence, to achieve the targeted aims, master one LMD students of English at Larbi Ben M?hidi University during the second term of the academic year 2021/2022 were the population under investigation. We adopted two instruments of research: a student?s questionnaire and teacher?s interview, the questionnaire was addressed to a sample of master one student (54 students) of English in order to know what demotivates them intrinsically and extrinsically. Also, an interview was conducted with seven master one English teachers to collect more information about their personal perspectives toward the same issue of demotivation among EFL learners. The results gained from both research tools revealed that learners are highly demotivated from both intrinsic factors ( shyness, anxiety toward learning English, lack of self-esteem ,fear of public speaking ) and extrinsic factors ( lack of job opportunities , the teacher`s methods , lack of teaching materials , boring course book content and, low test scores ).

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