Motivation Techniques used by English Teachers at Secondary Level

Abstract

This thesis entitled 'Motivation Techniques Used by English Teachers at Secondary Level' presents a clear picture of motivation techniques used by English teachers at secondary level in public schools. The data were taken both from the teachers and the students of secondary level. Both the teachers and the students were provided questionnaire two classes of every teacher were observed by the researcher with the help of pre-prepared observation checklist. From each school,two English teachers teaching at secondary level were selected. The main findings of the study are: all forty teachers greeted to the class, out of forty teachers, only ten teachers warmed-up the class, ten teachers scolded their students to motivate them, most of the teachers ( 36 out of 40) made their voice commanding to motivate the students, motivation techniques differed according to the situation of the class. Mostly used motivation techniques were: making the voice commanding, using body language, showing interest in his/her students, using gesture, asking students if they got the point or not, paying attention to the whole class, review of the previous lesson, telling jokes and short stories and solving students’ problems. All the teachers were agreed that students must be motivated before starting the class. All the teachers replied that motivation techniques differ according to the nature and situation of the class. The study consists of four chapters. Each chapter in turn has been divided into various sub chapters. The first chapter consists of general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with methodology which contains sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Third chapter includes analysis, interpretation and presentation of collected data which is the main part of the thesis. Finally, the fourth chapter consists of findings and recommendation of this study.