Everybody Loves Cinderella; a Study on Boosting Students’ Motivation in an Indonesian EFL Classroom

Abstract

Motivation is by large a fundamental aspect in learning foreign languages which plays significant role in determining the outcome of the learning process. For more than a decade now, EFL in Indonesia have been in the stagnant period when various efforts could not result as expected. One of the problems is that those efforts often do not deal with the real problem in the real classroom practice. This paper reports on classroom application was conducted in order to boost students’ motivation by using project-based learning as well as peer-learning strategy. Students were assigned to produce a play from scratch within their respective groups. By the end of the semester, each group of students has to present the play as their final assessment in English subject.