Fostering students’ motivation and engagement to improve the different English skills at Centro Boliviano Americano La Paz

Abstract

Fostering students’ motivation and engagement to improve English skills may be a big challenge that most of teachers faced at certain time. Students who are not motivated cannot be part of their own learning. We need to foster students need of being competent, autonomous and related. To have a class full of intrinsic motivated students might be awesome without expecting any kind of reward besides the learning itself. Teachers can help extrinsically motivated students to improve and succeed in the language learning and help them take responsibility for their own learning. Motivation helps students learn better and retain more of what they learn. Teachers can help students become more motivated by building their confidence, making lessons relevant to them, and creating a positive and supportive classroom community. We can make a lesson relevant by connecting them to topics we know that students like or are interested in, such as their hobbies or music.We can think of motivation like a motor, a source of power that gives us energy to do whatever we choose to do. Students who have their motivation motors switched on and turned towards learning will pay attention, work hard, and believe that can succeed. On the other hand, unmotivated students may seem passive and unengaged. So they don’t have any energy to invest in the learning process.