Gender Differences in Self-Determination Motivation to Learn English

The focus of the study was to investigate the students’ self-determination motivation in learning English on the basis of gender. This was a descriptive quantitative research. The participants of the study were 839 students consisted of 369 male students and 470 female students. The questionnaire of self-determination motivation in learning English was applied in collecting the data. The results of data analysis revealed that the students’ difference on the basis of gender, in general, the male students were significantly higher in amotivation than the female students. In extrinsic type of self-determination motivation, the male students were not significantly different with the female students. The female students were significantly higher than the male students in intrinsic motivation