Insights to sustain third year international commerce students’ motivation to learn ESP at Chlef university

Abstract EN

This paper attempts to shed some lights on one of the myriad of affective variables in the English language teaching / learning process namely motivation for its indispensable role in determining the learners’ success and failure.

more clearly, the main purposes of this study are to measure the students’ level of satisfaction when attending Esp classes and to find out what strategies to be used to foster and sustain their motivation.

the study involves administrating a developed questionnaire to a sample of 40 third year international commerce students and a structured interview with an English language teacher at the department of economy at Chlef university.

the findings revealed that the students were not highly motivated since their specific needs and expectations were not met.

thus syllabus content revision and dramatic changes are demanded to offer more supportive atmosphere and effective Esp courses that address the students’ target workplace specific demands and thereby enhancing their motivation.