Studying at Two Different Universities: EFL Students Motivations, Tensions, and Strategies

It is customary to find that some students choose to study at two different universities at the same time. During their study, they might face tensions, and therefore they need strategies to deal with them. This study aims to find out EFL students' motivation, tensions, and strategies in studying at two different universities. It used the descriptive qualitative method to collect the data through interviews. In doing so, four steps were used: reducing the data, coding the data based on the participant's answers, analyzing the data, and describing the data on students' motivation, tensions, and strategies in studying at two different universities. The results revealed that the students were intrinsically (e.g.,personal pleasure) and extrinsically (e.g., spesific goal) motivated. The tensions that students frequently faced are: course time conflict, lack of educational information, stress and exhausted, and difficulties in academic administration stuff. And to deal with the tensisons, the strategies used by students can be divided into three categories; time management, problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategy.