How to Motivate the Students of Junior Middle School in English Teaching 英语专业毕业论文.doc

How to Motivate the Students of Junior Middle School in English Teaching Abstract： It is accepted in most fields of learning that motivation is essential to success. Without motivation we will almost fail to succeed. It is similar to students’ English learning. However, English, as a second language, is not often used by most of the Chinese because they think that English will be useless if their work has nothing to do with English in their future. This traditional idea dies hard and also affects students’ interest in English study. Even though most of the English beginners are curious about this subject at beginning of their study, they will lose their interest gradually in their future study. What are the reasons for it? One is that English study is not the easiest thing as they thought in the past; the other is that the old traditional teaching systems used make teaching monotonous and students feel dull. Thus urgent and necessary reform in teaching methods has become a hot topic to be widely discussed. Some new ideas that are suitable for English study have been widely introduced and come into being. However, the point is that how to combine these advanced ideas with our own teaching and let the students get good results. This paper will center on three aspects discussing individually how to help teachers motivate the students of Grade Seven in English teaching. That is to say, teachers should reform teaching form, create a new teaching content and adopt a new system of assessment to motivate English beginners. Key words: Motivation; English beginners; Teaching reform Introduction On the most basic level in learning, motivation is something like internal drive, which pushes someone to do things in order to achieve something. As H Douglas Brown points out: longitude view of motivation includes factors such as the need for exploration, activity, stimulation, new knowledge and ego enhancement (Jeremy Harmer 2001:51). The motivation that makes students finish th