1. Tetiana Savchuk School 3
The Formation and Development of Motivation among Foreign Language Learners
Tetiana Savchuk
School 3

2. The principal aim of teaching is to form a positive motivation to learn foreign languages, leading to the presence of practical skills, communication, activity in the class

4. Begin a lesson with a funny story or a problem to be solved.
Specific methodological rules, which will definitely raise the students’ interest in foreign language learning and strengthen students’ motivational readiness in a foreign language lesson:
Begin a lesson with a funny story or a problem to be solved.
Ask the students’ opinion, be interested in their attitude to the problem.
Give examples from the students’ everyday life

5. Draw analogies with the material studied in other lessons in the mother tongue.
Remember that the student – the main character in all aspects of the lesson
The lesson must contain game time.
Use variety of tasks.

6. Give the opportunity for each student to speak, not limiting his speech over time.
Take into account the interests of each student.
Create a friendly atmosphere in the class.
Encourage the student even for the smallest success, development of self-confidence, independence from other people’s opinions.

7. The lesson should be student-oriented, which means that the lesson should be organized around the very student, his life, his interests. The teacher should touch only positive or neutral issues for the student.

8. Problem situations are the basis of discussion tasks, stimulate students’ mental activity, contribute to motivation emergence and needs for speech, forming hypotheses, assumptions.

9. The discussion motivates the students’ activity, allowing each student to express themselves in the lesson and join the oral foreign-speaking culture.

10. Methods increase the level of motivation to learn a foreign language.

11. Role-play games
“ … role-play game motivates speech activity, as students find themselves in a situation where demand is necessary to say something, to ask, to find out, to prove, to share with an interlocutor. Unlike dialogue or games that teach how to say, role-play answers the questions why (motive), and what for (purpose) are needed to say something.”

12. Project technology
“… only project method can turn foreign language lessons into a discussion and research club, which solves some really interesting, practically relevant and accessible to students, problems taking into account peculiarities of the culture of the target language country.”

13. Collage-making method
“… universal means of methodical and pedagogical, educational impact on students…”

14. The use of videos, cartoons and animated films
“… an effective form of teaching activity, which not only activates the students’ attention, but also helps to improve their listening and speaking skills as visual support of sounding acoustic series from the screen helps a more complete and accurate understanding of its sense…”

15. Computer multimedia presentations, created by students, of cartoons and animated films have a strong impact on students in motivational terms

16. To the teacher who is interested in motivating students to work with difficulty in foreign language learning
Be confident yourself in the students’ abilities and constantly tell him about it
Get rid of the student’s sense of shame
Avoid competitive situations with difficult tasks, where it is known such students loses
Put before him real problems
and not to express pity about
the mistakes

17. In every way show a personal interest in their success.
Be able to put yourself in the students’ shoes.
Find the positive moments in any answer, in any executed task.

20. Thank you for your attention!