Academic Motivation and its Influence on the Development of the Abilities of Students in the Area of English

Abstract

The objective of the research was to establish the relationship of the academic motivation in the capacities of the English area, understood as behavior and commitment of the student linked to the development of oral production skills (speaking) and written production (writing). The research was developed according to a quantitative approach, of a substantive type, of non-experimental and transversal design; the sample consisted of 121 students from the 2nd and 3rd year of the National School of Merchant Marine. The academic motivation questionnaire and the capacity test were used, obtaining valid and reliable results through the alpha of Cronbach and KR 20 respectively. The results through the Rho Spearman determine the existence of a significant influence between the academic motivation and the oral production capacity (speaking), concluding that the higher the academic motivation, the better the oral production ability will be obtained in the English language but not in the written production.

Keywords

• motivación académica
• atribución interna
• autoeficacia
• capacidades