Author(s)

Lan Zhou ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Xi'an Aerospace Second High School, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710016, China

Corresponding Author

Lan Zhou

ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the definition, classification and models of students' learning motivation. However, the most important part is to explore the strategies of stimulating High School students' language (especially English) learning motivation. This part is made on the basis of educational knowledge, experts' former researches and personal teaching experience. Students nowadays have various learning features and habits, therefore, they are easily affected by environment and cultural differences, as well as personal experiences. It is the main idea for teachers to construct students and stimulate their learning motivation according to their personal characteristics. Teachers should explore various strategies for different students. This paper chooses four main differences of students and gives advice on them respectively to make sure that students maintain their enthusiasm of English and teachers have correct methods to cultivate students' English learning motivation. The result of this research will do some good to teaching practice in the future.

KEYWORDS

Learning motivation; learning strategy; English learning

CITE THIS PAPER

Lan Zhou, Strategies of Stimulating High School Students' English Learning Motivation. Applied & Educational Psychology (2024) Vol. 5: 1-7. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2024.050401.

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