Elf Teachers’ Use Motivational Strategies in Teaching For Elf Learners’ Motivation Paragraph Writing: Muja Mariam Preparatory School in Focus.

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,