STUDENTS' MOTIVATION OF LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The paper deals with students motivation learning a foreign language. There are a lot of different definitions of motivation. In psychology, motivation is the driving force behind all actions of human beings, animals, and lower organisms. It is an internal state that activates behavior and gives it direction. Emotion is closely related to motivation, and may be regarded as a subjectively experienced component of motivational states. In pedagogics motivation is quite closely connected with the students' achievements in academic life. It is possible to define motivation as the content of the stimulus to act or energy which is inside, to help achieve our purposes, etc. It is an important part in the process of learning and teaching, too. The paper overlooks the main motivation theories in the presented aspects and points out the main factors stimulating and restraining learning interest.