YEREVAN STATE LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY AFTER V.

BRUSOV

Research Paper
Subject: Writing skills

Topic: How to motivate YSULS students

Faculty: EPP

Year: 4th

Group: 2nd

Lecturer: H. Kharazyan

Student: Eliza Kozhoyan

Yerevan 2019
Content

Introduction…………………………………………………………………

Part 1. What is motivation ?..........................................................................

Part 2 Motivation methods and how to motivate students to study? …....

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Conclusion………………………………………………………………….

References………………………………………………………………….
 Introduction

“Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world” by Malcolm X (American minister
and human rights activist)

Education in YSULS is quite interesting but complicated for many of students. There are many
subjects connected with specific profession. There are some students who want to study but do
not have enough motivation for it. Consequently, some of them try to find the motivation
through their goals, while the others just sit without trying and they mainly busy with their
phones and they lose their opportunity to have much more secured life. So, one of the most
difficult things that lecturers must do is learning how to motivate their students. It will be useless
when the lecturer spent his/her lesson giving only book translation or retelling the text or just
explaining the theory without curious slides. Lecurers must come together and decide how to
structure a reading program so that students will read more but also enjoy reading more. For that
every lecturer must spend his/her lesson attractively and effectively and find appropriate direct or
indirect methods in order to encourage demotivated students.

Motivation is not synonymous with achievement, and student motivation cannot necessarily be
inferred by looking at achievement test scores. Immediate achievement and test performance are
determined by a variety of factors and may even be assured through a variety of ways, and some
practices that serve to increase immediate achievement may actually have the effect of
diminishing students’ interest in learning as well as their long-term involvement in learning.
When we talk about motivation as an outcome, we are concerned with students’ "motivation to
learn." If we place a value on developing a motivation to learn in students, we are concerned
with whether students initiate learning activities and maintain an involvement in learning as well
as a commitment to the process of learning. Effective teachers are those who develop goals,
beliefs, and attitudes in students that will sustain a long-term involvement and that will
contribute to quality involvement in learning. Motivation is an outcome of education. Students
who elect to take advanced science classes because they want to learn more and not just because
they think they can do well. It is therefore a first priority to help teachers develop an
understanding of why motivation is important. Student can be demotivated for a different
reasons: they may feel that they have no interest in the subject, find the lecturer’s methods un-
engaging or lessons can be boring. There are some methods or techniques that lecturers use for
motivate their students.

So my general purpose is to help lecturers find out and solve the main problems with
demotivation and make students study with pleasure.
 Chapter 1
What is motivation?
Motivation is an internal impulse that brings us to complete an action. Without motivation,
there is no action.

Motivation is important because it is what causes us to dynamically look for resources to

guarantee out success. While some motivation requires a conscientious effort, others, like
looking for food, eating are inborn motives that we are born with and allow us to stay alive.
Secondary motives keep us motivated to do activities and learn, which depend on each person’s
culture. Anyone who has struggled through the dreaded History, Chemistry, Math, or English
class knows that not everyone is motivated to learn the same things. You might find that sitting
through English class was pleasant, but your classmate struggled to read all of the books in time
for the exams. There are two different types of motivation: Intrinsic and extrinsic(Richard M.
Ryan and Edward L. Deci ). These two ideas might not be two different ideas after all, but quite
opposites of the same idea, and are hardly ever “purely intrinsic” or “purely extrinsic”.

Intrinsic motivation: This kind of motivation occurs when you are motivated inside to do
something because you believe that it is important or because you enjoy doing it. Students with
this kind of motivation will be glad and excited to do their homework because they find it as an
exciting challenge, even though they might not receive any reward or payment. Intrinsically
motivated actions are performed out of interest and require promises or threats. They are
experienced as wholly self-determined, emanating from our sense of self. Intrinsic motivation
may disappear through school as children are required to learn subjects that may be of little or no
interest to them. In order to develop this kind of motivation, it is possible to make abstract
material more concrete and include it in context.

Extrinsic motivation: This kind of motivation is when a student wants to study or to learn
because of external factors, like reward or punishment. Nevertheless it’s been shown that
punishment is more damaging than useful, and that rewards have the possible to create a type of
dependency. For this reason, it’s the best way to give less and less rewards while building
intrinsic motivation.

Motivation is the impulse that brings us to carry-out and achieves what we propose and has a big
role in learning. According to a study, motivation influences math performance more than IQ.
Researchers found that while IQ is a factor in the successful acquisition of math, it mostly
applies to the basic concepts that you learn in early schooling. Motivation and study skills
become more of a determining factor as you continue to develop math skills. The students that
felt competent were intrinsically motivated to learn, and used skills like explaining, synthesizing,
and making connections to other materials, while avoiding memorization.

Motivation has often been characterized within what has been called a quantitative view of
motivation, in which motivation has been described as the intensity of behavior, the direction of
behavior, and the duration of behavior (CAROLE A. AMES. Motivation: What Teachers Need
to Know ). The question for classroom teachers is how to get students to do what you want them
to do and to do it consistently over time. This focus, however, does not help us in thinking about
how to develop and nurture a motivation to learn in students.
Chapter 2
 Motivation methods and how to motivate students to study?

One of the most difficult aspects of becoming a lecturer is learning how to motivate the
students. It is also one of the most important things that lecturers should think about. Students
who are not motivated will not learn effectively or successfully. They won’t retain information,
they won’t participate and some of them may even become disrupting. A student may be
demotivated for a variety of reasons: they may feel that they have no interest in the subject, that
they do not want even to learn that subject, they can find the lecturer’s methods unengaging or
be distracted by external forces. It may even be , that a student who is unmotivated actually has
difficulty to study and has need of special attention. So motivated students are more excited to
learn and participate.

Teaching a class, which is full of motivated students is enjoyable for teacher and student alike.
Some students are self-motivated, with a natural love of learning. Bu t even with the students
who do not have this natural drive, a great teacher can make learning fun and inspire them to
reach their full potential. So a great teacher should love educating students, and one of the main
goals many teachers set for themselves is to be the best educator they can be.

That’s why I have some frank discussions with lecturers by giving them some questions:

1. What methods do they usually use to motivate students?

Some of the lecturers answered that there are many methods but one of the most useful
methods is involve your students.
Students will not motivated, if you do not involve them and let them be part of your
classes or express their thoughts. Long gone are the days when teachers talked for the
most of the lesson, with students taking a passive role. Classes should be student-
centered. The teacher should be as a coach; to help, guide and direct the learning process.

Use different materials.

We all know, that today’s students prefer looking at a screen rather than at books/copies,
so use new technology. There are a lot of sites that offer online videos connected with
your specific subjects. Bringing technology into the lessons is a good way to motivate
students. You can not expect your student to be motivated if you pass half of the class
doing endless grammar and vocabulary exercises .

2. Do you know some effective ways to make students learn with pleasure ?

To my second question lecturers answered that learning with fun will give the students
pleasure while studying. Make your classes interesting and memorable. Use games and
competitions. I’m sure, that everybody likes competitions, and it gives students a good
opportunity to interact with each other, have fun and learn at the same time. Give them
different ideas, give them the freedom to explore.
 3. How do you engage students in learning if they are not motivated?

To my third question lecturers answered that for engaging students they organize group
discussions by dividing them into three or four groups by giving them one topic foe
discussion. In this way students immediately involve themselves in group discussions.

4. How do you motivate a lazy students?

To my last question lecturers answered that it’s a bit hard but anyway they are trying to
give some solution to that problem. They said that they are giving extra points to the
students for encouraging or to make them understand that education is very important
nowadays for having a good future job.

Conclusion
In my research paper I introduce all about the importance of education, motivation and its types, and
what methods lecturers use to motivate their students. For teachers, to be able to motivating their
students, there are several steps to do.
First, teachers should understand what problems that are headed by the students.
Second, teachers solve those problems using educational methods. Third, teachers give motivation
consider to what that students need and cooperative work with students parents, and society. By
doing these several steps, the students will be more motivated to study in a positive way.
As we see lecturers have a great role in student’s learning process. Education opens a lot of doors for
everyone, who are educated. The lecturers main problem is to activate and motivate a lazy student, in
this case the best way is to make class extremely interesting.

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