The Effective Use of Rewards to Enhance Student’s Motivation Case study: Second Year LMD English Students at Chadli Bendjedid University

Abstract

EFL teachers face many problems in their teaching of English because not all of their students have the same desire and the same willingness to study. Motivation is an important factor thatdetermines the success or failure of any complex task. For this reason, most of the teachers are trying to find solutions that may be methods or strategies thatimprove students ‘motivation. The present study is primarily conducted to examine how rewards affectstudent’smotivation. This study consists of atheoretical framework divided into two sections.The first onedefines the term,types, theories of motivation. The second one is an overview that describes the implementation of giving rewards by a teacher to motivate students, thesecondchapter is a Practical part, which includes studying and analyzing the results presented.This work is conducted in university of Chadli Bendjedid, it has been hypothesized that teachers and students will hold positive attitudes about the use of rewards in motivating students To confirm the hypothesis, we investigated the case of thirty second year EFL students . Using a descriptive method maintained by an online questionnaire administered for both teachers and students.The findings and the results obtained from this study support that both teachers and students are aware of the effective use of rewards in motivating students. For this reason; we can affirm that our hypotheses become validated. Results suggest that providing rewards to students has been considered an important method that improves English performance in a way that is meaningful for the students.