Teaching Strategies of Enhancing Motivation among Ethnic Minority Students

Abstract

Motivation is one of the non-intellectual factors that affect language learners' learning abilities. Motivation plays a very important role in language learners' learning activities and their performance. The paper mainly studies the motivation of ethnic minority students and the effective teaching strategies it brings about. Firstly, the author gives a brief introduction about the teaching object and learning situation of ethnic minority students. Secondly, the author introduces the definition and types of motivation. Then a research is done to study the motivation of students and its relevant influencing factors. In addition, an inquiry about the type of teacher that is popular among students is conducted. After that, a discussion of the teaching strategies is made so as to cultivate and stimulate students' learning motivation and thus improve the teaching effect.