The motivational activities and their influence in the learning of the english language with the students at “Hernan Gallardo Moscoso” high school. Academic year 2009-2010

Abstract

The present research work entitled: THE MOTIVATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE IN THE LEARNING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WITH THE STUDENTS AT “HERNAN GALLARDO MOSCOSO” HIGH SCHOOL. ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-2010., has been made with the purpose of determining the role of the motivational activities in the English language teaching learning process.

In the development of the work we have made use of the scientific method as a general one which has helped to find the true about the researched object. And as particular methods we used the descriptive to describe the data, the analytic-synthetic to analyze the results and the explicative to explain the phenomena and to elaborate the report.

In the field work we applied the instrument of the survey to the teachers and the students, to process the information we have used a logical analysis with descriptive statistics that helped us to describe the results in tables and graphs.

Among the main results of the research we found that the teachers do not apply enough motivational activities that help the students to learn better. They do not talk to the students about the usefulness, relevance and importance of learning the English language for that reason their levels of motivation towards the English subject are low and they are not interested in learning it. In fact the students’ learning is placed in a regular level.

Consequently in the researched institution we have found that there are serious troubles with the teachers and students because of the lack of motivation of the students to learn the English language. Therefore we have found out that the motivational activities influence in the learning of the students in the researched High School.