This thesis analyses the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and aimed to investigate how these types of motivation are related to bilingual education. The distinction between...Show moreThis thesis analyses the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and aimed to investigate how these types of motivation are related to bilingual education. The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation was based on Ryan and Deci’s theory on Self-Determination (2000a). Data for this research were collected by conducting 16 interviews with students from a school in the Netherlands that offered the option of a bilingual track. Of these 16 subjects, half followed the bilingual track on their school, while the other half did not. It was hypothesized that the students who followed the bilingual track were more intrinsically motivated than the students who did not. After analysing the interviews, and coding their answers, this hypothesis appeared to be correct.Show less
