Abstract:
The study intended to find out a study ofEFL teachers’ use motivational strategies in teaching
for EFLlearners’ motivation paragraph writing: Muja Mariam preparatory school in focus.
To achieve the objectives mixed research design has been used. This helped the researcher to
employ both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. The participants of the
study were 10 EFL teachers who were selected using purposive sampling. The researcher
believed that to use purposive for both teachers and students that they can provide enough and
clear information specially, the population seemed similar in many characters. Data required for
the study were observation, collected through questionnaire and interview but motivation is
difficult to observe. Among those data gathering instruments, face-to-face interview was
conducted with EFL teachers’ in the target school. The data from the above sources students and
teachers’ interviewanalyzed qualitatively and students’ questionnaire were analyzed
quantitatively using interpretations and percentile, which in turn were supported by the
responses of the selected participants. The result of the study revealed that EFL teachers do not
use motivational strategies due to the following reasons:
Teachers lack of clarity on the strategies during the practiceof paragraph writing andteacher’s
methods of teaching and lack of students positive attitude towards paragraphwriting, lack of
motivation, poor students’ interest, lack of motivational strategies to learn themselves. The
major conclusions are teachersdo not usemethodology to improve the students in paragraph
writing,
