Exploring The Determinants Of Students’ Motivation To Use Foreign Language Learning Platform (The Case Of Rosetta Stone)

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e-learning platform; motivation; expectancies of success; value

Abstract

Moroccan higher education has recently gone through several reforms to improve the quality of instruction. Among these reforms, the “ESRI 2030 Pact” calls for the learning of foreign languages in an attempt to train competent graduates who can pursue further studies and meet the changing demands of the job market and other socio-economic challenges. Within such a favourable educational context, the present article aims to investigate the factors determining the motivation of university students to adopt the foreign language learning platform: Rosetta Stone. This motivation is according to the expectancy-value theory (EVT) determined by two factors: expectancies of success and value. For one thing, expectancies of success are related to the student’s sense of competence. For another thing, value consists of the usefulness of the taught content, the interests of the learners, the psychological and physical costs of the platforms, and the importance that the student attaches to learning foreign languages (Eccles and Wigfield, 2002). This research is based on data collected from a sample of students from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences (FLSHO), at Mohammed I University, via an online questionnaire that aims to inform researchers in the field of education about the factors influencing motivation to learn languages using e-learning platforms. The survey found that although students believed in their abilities and appreciated the advantages of using the Rosetta Stone platform to study languages, they were hesitant to invest the additional time and energy required to succeed.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meriem Marhraoui
AU  - Khalid Mhamdi
AU  - Mohamed Abdelbassat Salhi
AU  - Ilham Chniete
AU  - Mehdi Kaddouri
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/06/20
TI  - Exploring The Determinants Of Students’ Motivation To Use Foreign Language Learning Platform (The Case Of Rosetta Stone)
BT  - Proceedings of the E-Learning and Smart Engineering Systems (ELSES 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 726
EP  - 741
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-408-2_53
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-408-2_53
ID  - Marhraoui2025
ER  -