Teacher impact on EFL students’ motivation

Abstract EN

This study probes teachers and students’ perceptions of some teacher characteristics impact on students’ motivation.

The investigation explores eight elements to elicit the views of students and teachers and find out which teacher characteristics both groups believe foster learners’ motivation in the EFL classroom.

A total number of 200participants was surveyed in the academic year 2014-2015.

The same questionnaire was administered to 21teachers.

The findings disclosed that teachers differed from students in the ranking of their characteristics.

This therefore implies that motivating learners requires a teacher to strike a good balance between the teaching methodology and the preferences of the students in terms of his or her motivating characteristics.