Motivation and Ways to Motivate Students(1)(2)
2017-08-01 01:03
导读：Language learning is a very complicated process that is influenced by many factors. Besides the intelligent factor, the non-intelligent factors---- motivation, attitude, interests, age, methods, will
Language learning is a very complicated process that is influenced by many factors. Besides the intelligent factor, the non-intelligent factors---- motivation, attitude, interests, age, methods, will and character----are the direct and the most important factors to English learning. Because the behavior of English learners is dominated by cognition, in other words, the learners have a desire in which is a drive to persist in English learning. It is true that two students sit next to each other in a class. They look alike and are similar in ability, but they act very differently. One jumps into assignments, participates eagerly in class, and gets good grades; the other hesitates on assignments, seldom joins in discussion, and barely gets by. Why? This situation is typical. How many times have we heard teachers say,” She could. ” Theories of motivation help us explain these differences. In Jakobovits’s research, he shows that the mainly influential factors to English learning are: motivation which takes up 33%, aptitude which takes up 33%, intelligent which takes up 20%, and others which take up 14%(cited in Jia Guanjie, 1996). Therefore, teachers and parents are interested in motivation, which can drive students in English learning actively. Body
Ⅰ. Theoretical Rationale
1. Definition of motivation
People are always motivated; in fact, they are never unmotivated. They may not be motivated to do what we would prefer they do, but it can never be truly said they are unmotivated (Combs, 1962, p. 85). In psychology, motivation is a force that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal (Paul Eggen
