Can Motivation Be Disruptive?

Student motivation is a common concern for the novice and veteran teacher of many subjects including teaching English as a foreign language (EFL).In this teaching journal I record the process of identifying a classroom issue regarding motivation and how its particular manifestation had a potentially negative impact on achieving the course goals.I discuss my provisions as well as provide some insights from the relevant literature for how to use strategies to mitigate the fluctuations and differences in levels and types of motivations among learners.This is particularly germane to a classroom that requires group participation and interdependence in order to realize beneficial outcomes from the learning process.