FOURTH DRAFT

At the moment of teaching English as a second language to high school students, it has to take into account the motivation as a relevant factor into the learning process of any language. acording to ( Crookes and Schmidt, 1991), "Motivation has been identified as the learner's orientation with regard to the goal of learning a second language". It is well known that students who are most successful when learning a foreign language are those who like the people that speak the language, admire the culture and have a desire to become familiar with that language. However, nowadays some teachers consider that teaching English as a foreign language is a matter of writting some grammar rules on a blackboard and memorizing some verbs or repeating some phrases, without take into account that this way of teaching English may turn into a boring experience for young students. In order to make an interesting class in an interactive and dynamic way without monotony, teachers need to put a great deal of thought into developing programs which maintain to the students interested and then they will obtain more goals. Therefore, it is advisable to plan the class, to make dynamic strategies and use audiovisual aids.


Fisrt of all, teachers must gain the learner's attention by planning stimulating activities and using a variety af teaching strategies. Teachers must design a great variety of teaching strategies adapted to the necesities of high school students in order to keep their attention, in a confident enviroment to obtain as a result the satisfaction of the teenagers and at the same time, the teachers may get result and students may be able to do good things at the end of the lesson that they couldn't do before that class.


Second of all, there are a lot of dynamic strategies like games, songs, workshops, speeches,etc. that can provideto develop the student's speaking skills and increasing their motivation. for instance, when students sing a song, they are developing different skills and also they get familiar with some phrases and, at the same time, they get a meaningful learning of English language. Also, the speeches improve their speaking abilities without fear to commit mistakes and the same thing happens with games because teachers can use their strategy to explain some grammar rules in order to motivate their students to participate in all the activities.

third, there are different audiovisual aids as computers, DVD player, CD player and overhead projector,etc. that can help the teacher to make a more dynamic class. Also, these resources can contribute to improve the student's abilities and let them the opportunity to learn a foreign language in an interesting way without monotony. For high school students is easier to relate an image, a movie, oral music and read a grammatical structure. For instance, Prof. Gómez A. who graduated as an English professor, used to bring a CD player to the university in order to plays any song that contained new vocabulary or some grammar structures related to each one lesson in class.
Teachers should select the resources very carefully because if the teacher dosen't choose the adequate resource, it mighy be hard to capture the teenagers attention and also they loss the motivation of learning English.It must create a narrow link between the student and the audiovisual aids in order to get positive results.