Abstract

For some reason, EFL students lose their motivation and interests and become more demotivated as time goes by. Many of the conducted studies focus on the factors that cause EFL learners’ demotivation rather than how EFL learners’ demotivation impact on classroom learning processes. Thus, the study will focus on the impact of EFL learners’ demotivation on the procedures and processes employed for EFL classroom interaction. The data are collected and statistically analyzed. The findings revealed the processes and the procedures that adopted for developing classroom interaction are negatively affected by the low quality of the participation that EFL demotivators do. These results negatively reflected EFL classroom interaction processes, EFL teachers’ performance, and EFL classroom group dynamics. In the light of these results, it recommended that the interactive classroom activities should be carefully designed and appropriately adapted to stimulate EFL demotivators’ interests. For example, the characteristics of these interactive classroom activities are in their content that reflects EFL learners’ cultural backgrounds and connects them to their every day actions.

Highlights

  • Learning a foreign language is not an easy task

  • Learners, who show no interest in classroom activities, usually underperform and underachieve

  • The researcher has a long practical teaching experiences as an EFL teacher, during his task in the EFL classrooms he was used to putting down notes concerning the EFL classroom interaction's challenges

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Summary

Introduction

One of the biggest EFL teachers’ classroom challenges nowadays is EFL learners’ lack of motivation and low interest towards learning English language as foreign language. Well-motivated and interested students do their best in the classroom. They help teachers to do their best instructions and facilitate tasks that make classroom learning more effective. Song & Kim (2016), added that motivation is a crucial factor in second language (L2) learning. It has been considered one of the factors with the greatest influence on an individual’s success in L2 learning. Attaining classroom interaction is usually influenced by the learners’ interests and motivation towards learning. Since teaching is a profession, it requires genuinely motivated and appropriately dedicated teachers to carry out the teaching tasks and lead the learners to the right path- the path of success

Motivation Vs Demotivation as Factors in EFL Learning
Influence of Demotivation on EFL Classroom Interaction
Demotivation in EFL Saudi Classrooms
Procedures of Data Collection
Participants
Data Analysis
Findings and Discussion
Interview
Questionnaire Analysis
Conclusion
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