The Journal of Studies in Language ISSN:1225-4770(Print) 2671-6151(Online) 언어연구

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of student motivation on learning satisfaction in the online learning environment. We collected and analyzed questionnaires targeting 200 university students who attended online English classes following the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2019. The findings are as flows. First, the intellectual motivation of the learners was impacted in the order of the control type and the professional type. Second, the learners’ skills acquisition motivation was impacted by the control type and the professional type. Third, the learners’ social motivation was impacted by the control type and the professional type. Fourth, the impact of the English professors’ communication styles on the learners’ motivation to avoid stimuli in the contactless situation was not confirmed. Fifth, as a result of examining and validating the impact of the English professors’ communication styles on the students’ satisfaction with the class in the contactless situation, the learners’ satisfaction with the class was impacted in the order of the control type, professional type, and the cooperative type. In this connection, in this study, it is uncertain whether the COVID-19 crisis will be terminated over a short period of time moving forward, but is also expected that the discussions of the contactless classes for school education will continue even after of the COVID-19 crisis.