Effective motivational strategies for English classes in Japan (1) : Based on questionnaires to teachers and students

Although most teachers would agree that motivation has avery important role in determining successor failure in English language learning, research on motivational strategies has infrequently been conducted until now in Japanese contexts. The complete study consists of two related investigations aimed at exploring effective motivational strategies for Japanese junior and senior high school students, with the following article presenting the results of an empirical survey on motivational strategies from the perspectives of English teachers. Eightysix Japanese teachers of English from junior high and senior high schools were asked how important they considered a selection of 50 teaching strategies (Dörnyei and Csizér, 1998). Based on their responses, a concise set of ten motivational macrostrategies called the \u27Ten commandments for motivating Japanese students\u27 were compiled, and then compared with those proposed by Dörnyei and Csizér(1998)