engleski

The importance of learners´ and teachers´ motivation in EFL learning

The main goal of this thesis is to present publications and research papers discussing motivation in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching and learning. The thesis deals with motivation of primary school EFL teachers and learners as well as the effect that motivation has on learners´ language achievement and attitudes towards language learning. One of the biggest challenges in the EFL classroom is improving learners´ motivation, so different aspects of motivation and motivational strategies in English language teaching and learning will be presented. This thesis will show what researchers have found on motivating and demotivating factors that influence teachers´ job motivation as well as the importance of choosing appropriate motivational strategies in English language teaching and learning. As research showed that learners tend to highlight certain activities as preferable, the connection between those activities and English language learning motivation will also be discussed. Alongside teachers, parents may also be involved in motivating learners and their involvement may be an extension to motivational strategies employed by teachers at school, therefore, their role will also be mentioned. Finally, since motivation has been found to have a great influence on learners´ language competence, especially reading and writing skills, those skills will be discussed separately as well as the ways in which teachers can motivate learners to learn vocabulary in English language, particularly because vocabulary learning has been found to be demotivating for FL learners.

learner motivation, teacher motivation, motivational strategies, reading motivation, motivation and writing skills, motivation and English language competence.

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