The Role of Motivation in the Development of Foreign Language Competence of Students

Abstract

The thesis studies the phenomenon of motivation of students namely the study of its formation. As a task of the research the author has defined an attempt to assess and analyze the changes of formation of motivation of students after conducting experimental work. The author tries to trace the cognitive process and reveal differences in motivational orientations of students in control and experimental groups. The work is interdisciplinary in its nature and is written at the intersection of psychology and pedagogy. As the key evidence the author presents a positive change among the motives associated with future development of the personality which confirms the assumption about the need to focus on student’s personality, his/her interests and development of personal values, i.e. correct orientation in a student-centered approach and self-actualization of individual students.