Results

The findings revealed that the reasons even within the small group of people varied. Overall 3 students are learning English because of personal interest, 4 for future career and 1 who consider both grounds equally.

“-…the final question: what mostly motivates you to learn English: the future career or personal interest?

-future career! Yeah.. To work.. To grow up!” (Appendices 1, age 18, male)

“…I think both of them equally. But may be mostly is future job.” (Appendices 2, age 24, female)

“-so the final question for you! What mostly motivates you to learn English: is it more for future career or personal interest?

Participant 3: - personal interest!” (Appendices 3, age 19, male)

In terms of gender differences the results were relatively significant. Only one female learner mentioned that she would learn English even if she doesn’t have career prospective. Conversely, 3 out of 4 male students claimed that they are learning English self-satisfaction mostly. In fact, nearly for all the participants their personal goals were the same as their future career. In other words, their dreams were to have successful future careers:

“Yes of course! But I think it’s from the same hand, because my dreams are work and do big things and it’s the same.” (Appendices 1, age 18, male)

All participants are perfectly aware of the importance of English in current society and in the modern world:

“…it is the principal language, you know, I mean if you want do something else out of your country you need to learn English. You need to speak English.” (Appendices 1, age 18, male)

“…it’s necessary to learn English, to know well English.” (Appendices 2, age 24, female)

“…being an international business language, you can go everywhere and speak English and they mostly understand you.” (Appendices 3, age 19, male)

Despite the different reasons for learning English, the importance of it in international scope was emphasized by all the students.

Conclusion

In my opinion the research was successfully completed, as the hypothesis was proven and the objective of the study was implemented: the majority of people learn English for career prospective. Speaking generally, the research went well. The main problems were about time management and lack of experience. After few interviews I realized that for some questions I get the same answers and some participants were confused. Of course the main causes for these problems were limitations such as: time, finance, equipment and the main lack of experience and knowledge. The biggest challenge for me, however, was the word amount. In future projects I will try to manage my time so that I can investigate deeply in the topic, collect the data and have time to analyze it. Especially, I will focus on more detailed analyzing.

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