The Life of Gandhari from Mahabharata of Vyasa in Socialist Feminist Perspectives

Abstract

Motivation is considered as one widely known study of subsequent relation with language performance. Following by an issue which has been investigated regarding its correlation links with motivation is gender. The present study examines motivational patterns and correlation across gender in English Foreign language learning. Participants in the study are Satya Wacana Christian University advanced English major undergraduate students. A questionnaire used for data collection and statistical means of frequencies and correlation analysis employed for data analysis. The findings indicated that there was no significant difference between male and female participants. The significance of this studyis to reveal that it is important for teacher practice’ in English major undergraduate program with the reasons that they can indicate the extent to which motivation to learn is mediated by gender and that there would not be any bias on gender bases in their motivational patterns in learning English as a foreign language.