The arcs motivational model to enhance speaking skills for first semester students of pedagogy of national and foreing languages at Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena

Abstract

Nowadays, motivation has become a very important factor in the process of teaching and learning of students, including adequate motivational strategies in the classroom, which means that education must always be changing towards the future. That is why English teachers must be constantly updated on the different motivational strategies for teaching and learning such as the ARCS motivational model, which main objective is to provide a series of motivational strategies that help improve motivation in students, allowing them to develop the ability to learn English in a satisfactory way. Because of this, the following research presents a guide with activities based on the ARCS motivational model with the purpose of enhancing the speaking skill in the English language and in addition it offers a series of activities that will help the students to increase their self-motivation, which will make them feel more confident when practicing the speaking skill. The following guide is directed to the first semester students of the Peninsula State University of Santa Elena. The methodology applied is a quantitative research, non-experimental design. According to the data obtained through questionnaires applied to the students, it was observed that many emotions and feelings came up at the time of speaking in English, resulting in demotivated students. For this reason, the activity guide based on the ARCS motivational model is proposed.