A Study on the ETTMR Model to Motivate Senior High Students’ English Learning in Jigang Senior High School in Jinan, China
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Abstract
The research objectives discuss the importance of effective ways to motivate senior high students’ English learning in Jigang Senior High School in Jinan, China. Despite the importance of students’ active engagement for learning, little is known about how teachers create environments that are supportive of students’ positive motivational and learning-related beliefs. Furthermore, most of the studies that have described teacher practices in relation to students’ perceptions of their classroom context have focused on elementary and middle school populations; much less is known about creating supportive contexts for high school students. I conceptualized supportive instructional contexts as a learning community, developing an ETTMR Model to promote and sustain students’ motivation and learning, based on the literature on classroom motivation. The ETTMR Model includes five elements: (a) teacher enthusiasm, (b) differentiated teaching, (c) real-life tasks, (d) authentic materials, (e) responsibility.