Exploring English Major Students' Readiness and Its Influence on the Students’ Motivation for Online English Courses

Abstract

The intent of this study is to explore the views of EFL undergraduate readiness to e-learning. More precisely, it probes how readiness will affect students’ motivation to learn online and whether the students’ gender and year of study have a relation with their readiness and online learning motivation. The researchers have administered an online survey with a 5-Likert scale (Microsoft Form) to259 EFL undergraduates from Al-Balqa Applied University of various study levels of English. The scale for data collection was adopted from a study by Hung et al. (2010). Results showed a positive relation between online learning readiness and online learning motivation, and the most significant predictor of online learning motivation was learner control readiness. Moreover, results revealed no significant relation between students’ e-learning readiness and their learning motivation due to the students’ gender and their year of study variables.