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MOTIVATION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Kamo Chilingaryan, Rimma Gorbatenko

Abstract

Motivation is a thing that can increase students’ determination and interest in language learning. Working in non-native environment, but bearing in mind that our task is teaching a foreign language, we see some important goals of motivation in: • Fulfilling university requirements • Improving one’s education • Improving critical and creative thinking skills • Increasing job opportunities and salary potential • Increasing global understanding, etc. A teacher should put a strong focus on the student’s motives to be able to accommodate them. To motivate learners’ attention should be drawn to the definition of motivation. According to the Webster’s, to motivate means the act or process of giving someone a reason for doing something : the act or process of motivating someone, the condition of being eager to act or work; the condition of being motivated; a force or influence that causes someone to do something. The paper looks through the reasons for motivation growth of law students at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in learning legal language as part of LSP. The objective of the paper was to establish a link between the successes in English and to obtain professional knowledge via participation in different international events. The authors have traced the change of attitude and the success of the team as well as his/her insight. Working in non-native environment, but bearing in mind that our task is teaching a foreign language, we see some important goals of motivation in: fulfilling university requirements, improving one’s education, improving critical and creative thinking skills, increasing job opportunities and salary potential, increasing global understanding, and some others. To be able to find the student’s motives a teacher should also see significant gains in it. The Webster states that to motivate means the act or process of giving someone a reason for doing something. A teacher needs to find the student’s motives to be able to accommodate them.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/SGEMSOCIAL2015/B12/S3.085

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