Stimulating and Developing High School Students’ Motivation in Their English Learning.doc

Stimulating and Developing High School Students’ Motivation in Their English Learning ?? Abstract：Stimulating learning motivation refers to transforming potential learning motivation to learning behavior. Motivation is the core of learning process, keeping right and long-lasting power is the premise of English learning. As for present English teaching, teachers often face students lacking learning interests and learning motivation, so how to stimulate and develop these students’ learning motivation is a universal problem for many teachers, of course it is a difficult problem. The essay aims at analyzing the classifications of English learning motivation, the influential factors of learning motivation and how to improve English learning motivation from many ways.? Key words:learning motivation ; stimulate and develop ; English learning?? I. Introduction ? In the development of the human society, people are always trying to search: Why do people study? It is because all the human activities have relations with certain motivation. Comprehensive psychologists introduce motivation theory like that, motivation is psychological source power of human behavior, including human beings’ different instincts, needs, goals, expectations, values, aims and so on (汪晓琴 38). Learning motivation is an internal motivation which directly gives impetus to，leads to and strengthens students’ learning activities, and an important variation which affects learning effects. ? II. Concept of Motivation? A. Definition of Motivation? In general, motivation is regarded as a kind of intrinsic power, an emotional effect, a desire to promote human beings to take action (王初明95). Mitchell and Myles thought motivation was a very complex organism, which was composed by three parts: the desire to achieve an aim, the effects to achieve the aim and the satisfaction after achievement (Mitchell, Myles 52).? B. Definition of Learning Motivation and English Learning Motivation? 1. Defi