EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION IN TEACHING ENGLISH

Although intrinsic motivation is clearly an important type of motivation, most of the activities people do are not, strictly speaking, intrinsically motivated. This is especially the case after early childhood, as the freedom to be intrinsically motivated becomes increasingly curtailed by social demands and roles that require individuals to assume responsibility for no intrinsically interesting tasks. In schools, for example, it appears that intrinsic motivation becomes weaker with each advancing grade