Abstract:
Many social factors are likely to affect the affective factors such as motivation
indirectly affecting the learning of English as a second or foreign language.
This study examined the influence of Socio-economic Status (SES) on students’
Language Learning Motivation (LLM). We conducted a survey by using
questionnaire to collect information about SES of the students and motivation.
The respondents were students of secondary schools (Class X) affiliated to
Central Board of Secondary Education. The data analyses were done using
SPSS by descriptive statistics, anova and simple linear regression. SES
comprises fathers’ education, mothers’ education, fathers’ occupation, mothers’
occupation and family income. LLM construct included integrativeness and
attitude towards learning situation developed by Gardner (1985). The reliability
of the questionnaire for SES and LLM was found to be α=0.735 and α=0.608
respectively. Results indicated that there is a significant relationship between
SES and language learning motivation which reflects that increase in social
status leads to increase in language learning motivation.