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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Problem Statement
1.2 Research Questions
2 ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' LACK OF MOTIVATION
2.1 The Study
2.1.1 Participants for Questionnaire
2.1.2 Procedure
2.1.3 Results and Discussion
2.2 Factors Concerned with Teachers
2.2.1 Rigid Grammar-translation Teaching Approach
2.2.2 Disadvantages of Teacher-centered Teaching Approach
2.3 Factors Concerned with Students
2.3.1 Unsuitability of the Transition from Middle School to College
2.3.2 Ineffective Learning Strategies
2.3.3 Excessive Anxiety about Classroom Performance
2.3.4 Pressure of College English Test
2.3.5 Negative Attitudes towards Learning
2.4 Factors Concerned with Tasks
2.5 Factors Concerned with Environments
2.5.1 Problems Caused by Large Classes
2.5.2 Inadequate Opportunities to Use English
3 THEORETICAL BASES OF MOTIVATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
3.1 On Motivation
3.1.1 Definition of Motivation
3.1.2 Division of Motivation
3.1.3 Distinction between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
3.1.4 The principles of Intrinsic Motivation
3.2 Early Psychological Views on Motivation
3.2.1 Achievement Motivation
3.2.2 Optimal Arousal
3.3 Cognitive Perspectives of Motivation
3.3.1 Attribution Theory
3.3.2 Self-efficacy Theory
3.3.3 Self-worth Theory
3.3.4 Locus of Control
3.4 A Social Constructivist Perspective of Motivation
4. APPLICATION OF THE TECHNIQUES FOR STIMULATING STUDENTS' MOTIVATION
4.1 Enhancing Teachers' Roles in Promoting Students'Motivation
4.1.1 Improving Teaching Approaches
4.1.2 Teachers' Characteristics
4.1.3 Teachers' Roles as a Mediator
4.2 Fostering Learners' Initiatives and Autonomy in CET
4.2.1 What Is Autonomy?
4.2.2 Significance of Encouraging Learner Autonomy
4.2.3Ways of Promoting Learner Autonomy
4.3Arranging Proper Learning Tasks in Foreign Language Teaching
4.3.1 Understanding Guiding Principles of the Design of Tasks
4.3.2 Promoting Co-operative Learning among Students
4.4 Creating a Good Learning Environment
4.4.1 Organizing Co-operative Classroom Structure
4.4.2 Creating a Good Classroom Atmosphere
4.4.3 Using Non-Verbal Communication to Stimulate Students' Motivation
4.4.4 Building up a Good Teacher-Student Relationship
4.5. EXPERIMENT
4.5.1 Questionnaire on students'movivation in language learning
4.5.2 Interview
4.5.3 Results and Discussion
5. CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
