Teaching strategies and techniques to motivate students learning English in the preparatory schools-Qatar: an action study

الملخص EN

Educational process has a great impact on the motivation of the learners, and these incentives (motives) are under the control of the teacher who directs the educational process.

Accordingly, this action research is carried out to examine the effectiveness of certain teaching/ learning strategies and techniques applied for grade nine students chosen from Fatima Al-Zahra Preparatory School- Qatar to raise their motivation for learning English language.

The findings show that external motivations (extrinsic) are among the most important factors in the success of learning English language, which are compensatory factors in the absence of the spontaneous desire to learn that language.

The selected students have undergone varieties of active learning strategies, resources and tensive use of modern technology.

The methods that are implemented in this study, include the designed questionnaire and the official exams sheets conducted on the targeted students.

However, both qualitative and quantitative approaches are used to analyze the data.

The present study shows that the students are academically weak in English language, not well motivated to learn English, the learning strategies, resources, and techniques utilized in the classroom proved to be effective to motivate the students and are reflected on the academic performance of the students.

Therefore, the data analysis of the success ratio among the targeted students has shown an increase from 41.5% to 91.5% after the application of new strategies and techniques.