Niski poziom motywacji studentów filologii germańskiej Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie do nauki przedmiotu „Gramatyka praktyczna języka niemieckiego” – próba diagnozy przyczyn

The present paper is an attempt to explain low motivation levels exhibited by German philology students of the Pedagogical University of Cracow towards one of the university courses, namely Practical German Grammar. To this end, Niski poziom motywacji studentów do nauki gramatyki the paper considers the role of individual as well as social motivation in the process of learning grammar of German as a foreign language. The paper also discusses the results of a questionnaire study conducted among German philology students of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, in which the participants were asked, among others, about the role of grammar in their future professional career and about the strategies they use to help them learn grammar. The results of this questionnaire study, on one hand, help to explain low motivation levels exhibited by the respondents towards learning grammar, but they also carry more general implications concerning teaching of grammar at the academic level.