DEVELOPING ACADEMIC MOTIVATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING AT NON-LINGUISTICS FACULTIES
The article is devoted to the problem of students' communicative competence development in learning and teaching a foreign language for specific purposes. Research in this area confirms the fact that whatever a learner's gift for languages, it is motivation that can significantly improve the efficiency of the process. A student is deeply motivated when learning a foreign language becomes a personal aim. One of the external motivators is a teacher's assessment of a student's work. The article also provides a number of techniques of foreign language teaching that enhance a student's internal motivation. The authors emphasize the importance of forming and maintaining internal motivation to learn a foreign language through the development of such qualities as autonomy and competence. Among the most effective factors to intensify the process are a student's positive / negative perception of the target culture and willingness / reluctance to communicate with native speakers of the target foreign language. Another motivator is a learner's attitude to the classroom atmosphere, including relations with the teacher, groupmates, and his / her personal perception of the learning process procedure in general. The investigation that sums up the experience of teaching a foreign language at the Institute of International Relations and Social-Political Studies, MSLU, proceeds from understanding motivation as a system of its two interdependent components - internal and external motivation.