ENHANCING EFL STUDENTS‟ MOTIVATION THROUGH SELF-STUD
ENHANCING EFL STUDENTS‟ MOTIVATION THROUGH SELF-STUD

Summary/Abstract: The article describes ways of developing EFL students‘ motivation through promoting self-study. The authors introduce definition of ‗motivation‘. The aim of the research was to enhance students‘ motivation; to identify interrelation between students‘ motivation to learn a foreign language and students‘ self-study. Within the research, the authors‘ methodology for assessing motivation of students learning a foreign language was developed; a complex of tasks for self-study on the discipline ―Foreign Language‖ focusing on enhancing motivation through self-study was reviewed. The complex of tasks for students‘ self-study was based on the following levels of self-study: simulating (copying); semi-creative; creative ones. The analysis of the results obtained showed domination of an optimal motivational complex, that proves a hypothesis of possibilities of self-study to promote enhancement of students‘ motivation to learn a foreign language. The significance of the research is proving the effectiveness of the developed scientific methodological approach to developing students‘ motivation for learning the foreign language through self-study. The paper is of practical value for the foreign language teachers, as they can use the data as the basis for developing a system of assignments for self-study aimed at increasing their EFL students‘ motivation.

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