Motivational Factors for Acquisition of Kivunjo as a Second Language: The Case of Kivunjo Speakers, Mwika, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Abstract

This study is a descriptive account of motivational factors for non-native speakers to acquire kivunjo as their second language.  The study was informed by Gardener’s (1985) motivational dichotomy (later on argued against compartmentalisation of motivation) intertwined with social, economic and cultural aspects of the speaker situations.  The study involved 68 speakers of different gender, occupation and age, to whom a motivational questionnaire and structured interview were administered.  It was significant found  out that the motivational factors were largely social and cultural though a significant number were also motivated by economic factors while only a few had religious motivations for acquiring Kivunjo as a second language.  It is concluded that those motivational factors are largely instrumental through a few could be attributed to integrative motivation and that motivational factors that were discussed as categories were done so only for analytical purposes but they are not mutually exclusive when they apply to individual acquires.