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One positive thing that the covid era has left behind in the education world is the flexibility of learning. Post covid times have encouraged many to embark on a more flexible way to gain knowledge. Interestingly, this flexibility has pushed many learners to gain independence in learning. This study explores motivation and self-regulated learning for foreign language learning. A purposive sample of 142 participants responded to the survey. The instrument used has 4 sections. Section A has items on demographic profile. Part two has 22 items on motivation. Part three has 13 items on cognition and part four has 9 items on behaviour. Findings showed interesting information on foreign language learning. Learning a foreign language requires the learner to depend on his/her motivation. This motivation can trigger the cognition of the learner to focus on the main goal of learning by exhibiting self-regulated behaviour. Statistical analysis also showed that there is also a strong positive relationship between motivation and cognition. There is also a strong positive relationship between cognition and behaviour. Finally, there is also a strong positive relationship between behaviour and motivation. Results in this study bear interesting implications in exploring motivation among foreign language learners and how to push them to become self-regulated learners.
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Rahmat, N. H., & Thasrabiab, T. (2024). Exploring Motivation and Self-Regulation from The Social Cognitive View. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 14(1), 3276–3290.
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