The Analysis Of EFL Learners' Demotivation And Promotion Of Motivation

According to the motivation theories of Lambert and Gardner, motivation can enhance English learning. However, as English teachers, we often found that in the language-learning classroom, English practitioner can easily find that quite a few students are demotivated. They are unwilling to get involved in activities and various tasks. They seem to have lost interest and become more and more numbed or frustrated with their learning. Consequently, they lose their confidence. Demotivation has detrimental impact on students' foreign language learning outcomes. A subfield of communication studies: instructional communication supplies us the only systematic theoretical foundation for research. The classroom is a relevant context to study foreign language. The interaction between teachers and students and teachers' instructional styles are influencing factors of students' demotivation. Teachers' verbal and non-verbal behaviors will increase or reduce the physical and psychological closeness between teachers and students. This paper will investigate the reasons and influencing factors for students' demotivation and ways of promoting students' motivation with qualitative and quantitative research methods. Students' problems are assessed by a questionnaire and an interview. The data are analyzed by using the computer software SPSS. Correlational and factor analytic methods are adopted. The results reveal that students' demotivation is teacher-related. Therefore,, teachers should pay attention to promote students' motivation in their language teaching.