Dornyei L2 Motivation Self System in Plurilingual Context of Balochistan

Abstract

In this paper I investigated the Dornyei L2 motivation Self System in a plurilingual context of Balochistan and some other motivational factors related to the context of Balochistan to find out the basic motivational factors behind the students intended learning factors. I employed the explanatory sequential mix method design for my research in which two types of data were collected in two phases and analyised together. The questionnaires were administered in the three main public universities of the Balochistan. Among them 154 male and 144 females for quantitative data collection and for qualitative data 13 students were interviewed among whom 7 were male and 4 were female. Quantitative data was analyised in SPSS version 26 and qualitative data was analyised through thematic analysis. Findings of the research proved the validity of Dornyei L2MSS in the plurilingual context of Balochistan. And Instrumentality promotion, L2 Learning Experience. Ideal L2 Self, Attitudes towards learning and ought to L2 self as the major components of learners intended efforts. Correlation analysis demonstrated the strong relation of Ideal L2 self and L2 learning Experience with the intended learning efforts and ideal L2 self with the status symbol, instrumentality promotion and attitudes towards learning. Moreover, ought to self strongly correlate with Anxiety, Instrumentality prevention and Pakistani or Muslim identity.