Motivation And Motivating In EFL Teaching And Learning In Secondary Vocational And Technical School

Secondary Vocational and Technical Education is one of the important aspects in modern education. The increasing economic and the intercultural activities require its students with higher capacity to master English and focus on the core competencies to fit the local labor market needs. Motivation is one of the most important factors in promoting and energizing people's behaviors. As an EFL teacher, it is very important to motivate their students to learn the language. This paper aims to explore the matter to find a realistic rationale to help FEL teachers in their classroom teaching. First, it reviews the literature work done in this research field: from the early bio-behavioral psychological views to the most recently developed social constructive review on motivation. Following the literature review on motivation and foreign language learning, a Process Model of L2 Motivation, which observes the issue from cognitive, meta-cognitive, social, and social constructive perspectives, is introduced based on self-perception and integration emphasizing the dynamic feature of motivation and the possibility of enhancing and protecting motivation in the learning process in the long run. Then it gives the background of this research issue and problems investigating and analyzing. After describing and analyzing the motivational problems existing in EFL classroom in secondary vocational and technical school, the potential pedagogical implication of the process model is discussed and a practical EFL teaching model proposed and some suggestions provided for EFL teachers.