Strategies to foster motivation in english learners

Abstract

Motivational strategies to foster motivation are very helpful tools that teachers can use to maintain or raise their students’ motivation in the classroom. The main goal of this research study is to analyze what motivational strategies have been reported as the most effective and used in the English classrooms. It is an exploratory bibliographic research and fifteen empirical studies were chosen to answer the research questions. The inclusion criteria for the literature review were research studies that apply motivational strategies on different kinds of students, that were published in the last 15 years, and applied in EFL classes. The results of this study indicate that only 7 of all the motivational strategies used in the different research studies turned out effective and motivational for English students. Also, after the application of motivational strategies, teachers find advantages and disadvantages. Further research studies are recommended in order to have a wide range of effective motivational strategies and to know more about the effects of these strategies on students’ motivation