Students Are Not Motivated to Communicate in English: an Action Research

Abstract

Abstract There are many problems in classroom associated with English language teaching. Among them, lack of students’ motivation and interest to speaking English is one of the major problems. The purpose of our study is to motivate our students of Grade seven via various activities. Every teacher should arouse motivation and interest to speak English in the classroom by applying various kinds of teaching methods such as warm up activities, summarization techniques, picture description, and English Simple story to help them produce something by their own. Therefore, every teacher should engage students in various activities by understanding their level to encourage them and to reduce their anxiety and negative attitude in Speaking. Similarly, motivation plays significant role for acquiring Second language. Importantly, if teachers really want to help to sustain their self-confidence they need to know and use effective teaching strategies in the English as second language teaching.