The use of language functions to promote the foreign language learners’ motivation and fluency at the advanced level

الملخص EN

The current study aims to focus on the effect of teaching language functions on promoting learners' motivation and fluency; it measures the achievement in language functions for the third year students at Department of English, College of Education for Human Sciences, University of Basra.

The theoretical part of the study tackles the main areas of the study such as discussing language functions, the origin of language functions, ways of teaching language functions, the notional functional syllabus and the communicative language learning.

The study alsodiscussesthe motivation as a vital component in the pedagogical process, the types of motivation, theories and the ways of developing motivation.

In addition, the research tackles fluency in teaching, the theories of fluency and the different techniques for promoting fluency.

The practical part of the study is mainly concerned with the questionnaire and the two tests – spoken test and written test- and the conclusions aimed at by the researcher.