Abstract
This study is a report of some best ways teachers can employ to surge up EFL students’ motivation in class. It aims to let the teachers know which ways to use and how to use them to motivate EFL students in classroom. It also intends to make EFL teachers familiar with the positive effects motivation can have on students’ progress in class. The result of this study reveals students’ early knowledge of the course syllable and assessment, rewards and positive reinforcement they receive and their chance of group work and role play will considerably increase the students’ motivation to learn English provided that the teachers creates a mutual and respectful relationship with the learners. Also it shows that motivation increase will highly affect the student’s language learning development. This study is done based on the analysis of oral interviews of a survey done by the researcher on forty male students learning English as a foreign language in a high school in Iran.
Key words: motivation, teachers’ role, learning, student’s progress