MOTIVATION AS AN IMPORTANT PERSONAL FACTOR OF PRODUCTIVITY IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT SCHOOL

Abstract

Modernization of the education system in Kazakhstan actively affects all areas of training, including the processes of teaching foreign languages. National education has set high standards, the achievement of which requires reconsidering not only the content of education, but also of the attitude to the subject. In this aspect, motivation is important, fundamental factor contributing to the activation of foreign language acquisition, raising interest in learning and striving to expand the boundaries of cognition. The concepts of "Motive" and "Motivation" have been studied for a long time both in psychology and in pedagogy, but remain relevant to this day due to new approaches in teaching methods and a new vision of teacher’s role. These concepts are studied in the course of scientific observation of the real process of teaching English in a number of Kazakhstani schools.

The main goal of the present study is students’ motivation in learning. The tasks include theoretical understanding of motivation as an important basis for academic success and personal orientation in the behavioral attitude of students, as well as empirical observation on the basis of several schools of the real educational process in order to identify existing obstacles to the development of a sustainable motive for learning.

This brief study has achieved the following results: the concepts of motive and motivation were described and the importance of forming a stable motivation for achieving learning goals was confirmed by both the student and the leading teacher; empirical observation was carried out and separate methods of composing control tests and tasks for assessing the level of knowledge were recorded; some recommendations were offered during the critical observation of the progress of the criterion assessment.