The Role of Motivation and Procrastination in Efficient Learning of the English Language in Universities

Learning foreign languages is vitally important, especially in this day and age. Notwithstanding this fact, the problem that students who learn second language have concerning their motivation and inability to conquer procrastination has been topical for many psychological research papers in the recent decades. The currently existing studies are limited to types of motivation and procrastination, and factors that facilitate and undermine these phenomena and statistics related to them. This work is aimed at establishing the role that motivation and procrastination play in efficiency of learning English in universities. Therefore, the focus of this work is laid on the possible interconnection between the aforementioned phenomena. In order to achieve this aim, primary and secondary data were collected, both qualitative and quantitative data analysis approaches were employed. Students of the Foreign Languages and Cross-cultural Communication bachelor programme were interviewed with the help of Google Forms. The collected responses were systemized statistically calculated according to the existing theoretical classifications of the analyzed phenomena.