Enhancing Non-English Majors’ EFL Motivation through Cooperative Learning

At present, most of the Chinese college English teachers fail to pay enough attention to the students’ motivations andthe important motivational variables, much less have a systematic way of improving students’ motivation. The thesis aims at producing background information about some research into L2 motivation, illustrating the causes of the lack of learning motivation and proposing corresponding solutions to motivating learning which emphasizes active and responsible learning through interpersonal interaction. A survey and an empirical research was carried out in an ordinary class of non-English major for 15 weeks by applying cooperative learning (CL) method in college English teaching. The result of the survey also provides evidence for the framework which intends to help teachers to develop systematic motivation strategies for non-English majors.