Data from: Undergraduate students' motivation to learn and attitudes towards English in multilingual Pakistan: A look at shifts in English as a world language (System)

We investigated undergraduate students' motivation to learn English in Pakistan using Dörnyei’s (2009) L2 Motivational Self System as the theoretical framework. We additionally investigated the attitudes of the participants, and how they felt about the status of English as the official language of Pakistan and as the medium of competitive examinations.

The data are from 229 undergraduate university students at three public universities in the capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan. The data are from paper-based questionnaires.

The Codebook has the list of the variables. The data are in the CSV file. A copy of the data in a SPSS (.sav) file is provided as well. Appendices A through D are referred to in the article in System.

本研究以多尼耶（Dörnyei）2009年提出的二语动机自我系统（L2 Motivational Self System）为理论框架，对巴基斯坦本科生的英语学习动机展开调查；同时还探究了受试群体的态度倾向，以及他们对英语作为巴基斯坦官方语言、竞争性考试媒介语的地位的看法。
本研究的数据来源于巴基斯坦俾路支省首府三所公立高校的229名本科生，数据采集工具为纸质问卷。
本数据集附带编码本（Codebook），其中列明了全部变量；数据集以CSV格式文件存储，同时也提供了SPSS格式（.sav）的数据副本。附录A至D的内容可参见刊发于《System》期刊的本文正文。