ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING: DEMOTIVATINGFACTORS AMONG UNDERGRADUATES OF ENGLISHASASECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) LEARNERS INUSAS

Abstract

This paper attempted to determine the salient demotivating factors in learning the Englishlanguage among ESL learners in Universiti Sultan Azlan Shah (USAS). Questionnaire consisted of 20 items whichwas adopted from Sakai and Kikuchi (2009) and is used as the instrument to collect the data from Diploma studentsof USAS in this study. Finding of this study had extracted six factors which were Course book, Inadequate School
Facilities, Test Scores, Non-communicative Methods, Teachers’ Competence and Teaching Styles and Social. It wasalso reported that the most demotivating factor was Non-Communicative Methods (M = 2.99) meanwhile theweakest demotivator was Teachers’ Competence and Teaching Styles (M = 1.93). The implications of this study arethe emergence of new teaching approaches that could increase the motivation of students in learning the languageand a reference for language centers to improve their language policies based on the findings of the study.