The application of ARCS motivation model in college oral English teaching

Abstract

In order to make spoken English more widely used in college communication, the author proposes the application of ARCS motivation model in college spoken English teaching. The author tries to apply ARCS motivation model in the strategy design of college oral English teaching, the four core factors of attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction are explained, analyzed and explained in detail respectively, twelve practical teaching methods and strategies are summarized. A total of 109 students in 3 classes were taught for a semester, the teaching strategies and methods mentioned above were used in the weekly oral English teaching classes. After applying several teaching strategies designed by ARCS model to stimulate motivation, a post-test was conducted for all the students in the experimental class, by comparing the data before and after, the anterior and posterior sides of S1 natural consequences completely disagree: 14.67%, 13.75%, less agree: 29.35%, 24.76%, unsure: 11.04%, 1.82%, more agree: 19.26%, 33.07%, strongly agree: 25.68%, 26.6%. We can see that in terms of attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction, the results show that ARCS motivation model is effective in college oral English teaching.