GeneratingStudentMotivation激发学生的学习兴趣.doc

Generating Student Motivation Mu Huaiqi 1, Cai Wenbin 2 Transportation College, Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia 010070; Huhhot Vocational College, 010051) [Abstract] In the context that English will bow out of the CET test in three years’ time, it seems even more important for students in China to highlight the motivation for English study. This paper tried to clarify the importance of motivation, tell us what the research on motivation is about and how to generate the motivation. [Key words] generate; motivation; passion; learner; connect Motivation has been called the “neglected heart” of language teaching. As teachers, we often forget that all of our learning activities are filtered through our students’ motivation. In this sense, students control the flow of the classroom. Without student motivation, there is no pulse and there is no life in the class. If we learn to incorporate direct approaches to generating student motivation in our teaching, we will become happier and more successful teachers. Why is motivation so important in EFL? The issue of motivation, particularly in EFL (English as a foreign language) settings, is so important that other considerations about teaching methodology seem to pale in comparison. It is important to think about motivation as the essence of language teaching because of the stark realities of English learning for most of our students. All of the conditions that we know contribute to successful second language acquisition (SLA) are lacking in most EFL contexts: there just isn’t enough English input in the environment, there probably aren’t enough opportunities for interaction with English speakers, there usually aren’t enough strong role models promoting the learning of English, and there may not be widespread enough social acceptance for the idea of becoming proficient in English. Because of these adverse conditions, a learner has to have extraordinary motivation in order to succeed in learning English. What