STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH
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This article aims to clarify the students’ motivation in learning English and suggest how the teachers of English can motivate their students to learn it. Moreover, it is argued that to motivate the students, the teachers need to know not only the theory of motivation but also the theories about language learning. Consequently, the theories discussed in this paper are those that indicate the author’s methods of teaching English to various groups of students in several universities in Thailand. Though the motivation and English learning theories are useful for students, the author has found that these theories did not work all the time, in all settings, or with all students, nor did they yield positive results when used all of them at the same time.
Hence, the use of theories depends on a specific situation, and the decision to select which one to use depends on an individual teacher’s discretion at the same time. Therefore, in this paper, the author suggested how the author has applied these theories in her classroom setting and provided some teaching tips for a task-based learning class to stimulate the students’ extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.
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