A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOK AS A MEANS FOR MOTIVATING STUDENTS TO LEARNING ACTIVITY IN INSTITUTIONS OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION

Abstract

The article analyzes the essence and types of motives for students’ learning activity of general secondary education institutions, including the process of teaching a foreign language. The role of a modern school foreign language textbook is revealed, which by its content should provide motivation to perform learning and cognitive activity and facilitate the implementation of students’ foreign language communicative intentions. The authors consider a modern textbook on foreign language as a polyfunctional means of teaching foreign language communication, paying special attention to the motivation of student’s learning activity. The main components of the motivation for learning actions are identified and characterized, and adapted to the content of the school course in a foreign language. In particular, the authors considered such components as: affective (empathic), personal, initiating, cognitive, productive, reflexive (selfassessment), target, procedural (strategic). The results of students’ questionnaire from different regions of Ukraine confirmed authors’ approaches to the system of schoolchildren motivation for foreign language learning activity in the content of foreign language textbooks.