How to increase motivation of students while teaching english at none-language faculties

Abstract

Integration of Ukraine into the European community has necessitated the training of highly qualified specialists who have good knowledge not only in specialty, but also in English. However, not all students of non-language specialties understand the need to learn this subject. From our experience we can say that the personality of the teacher, his/her methods and approaches to teaching are very important for the formation of positive or negative motivation to study a foreign language. The task of the teacher is not only to give new information and consolidate the knowledge, but also to manage and control psychological activities of students, form their motivation, skills and abilities to use a foreign language. We believe that positive motivation to learn a foreign language can be achieved by the diversity of the tasks of any aspect of a foreign language: reading, speaking, writing or studying grammar. Some examples of tasks that are of greatest interest to our students are given here. Some definitions of motivation are presented (1) manifestation of internal instinctive motives; 2) social approach to motivate a person to perform (or not) some actions). The author points out that a positive attitude to learning a foreign language can be achieved by diversifying the learning objectives of any aspect of a foreign language: reading, speaking, writing or grammar. Some examples of tasks that are of most interest to the students are given in the article. From our own experience, we can state that the greatest emotional contact, and, accordingly, the desire to take an active part in the classroom activities, arise when discussing oral topics. The main task of the teacher is to choose a topic that will be interesting for both the students and the teacher. Realizing the need to introduce grammar into the training course, we try to introduce game components or conversations, which also significantly increase the motivation of students to study the teaching material. Working with texts on specialty also needs some creative approaches which are described in the article. The author believes that the creation of positive motivation to learn a foreign language and maintain a favourable psychological climate in the academic group as well as teacher’s professionalism is a necessary condition for effective organization of the educational process while teaching English.