All for Education, Education for All

MOTIVATING LEARNERS IN LEARNING ENGLISH AS A COMPULSORY SUBJECT IN EFL CONTEXT by Eridafithri, S.Pd, M.A (TESOL)  efithri74@gmail.com  (The writer is a teacher of SMA Negeri 10 Fajar Harapan Banda Aceh) Motivating learners in learning English as a compulsory subject in schools, mainly in EFL context, seems to be a dilemma to some extent because motivation is something unseen, and comes from within (Brown, 2007). Frequently, teachers find it hard to dive deeply into learners mind and figure out what they do and why they do it. It is not easy to raise motivation for learners who learn English not because they want to or because they need to as in EFL context, in which they learn English only because they have to pass the school leaving test. Brown (2007, p. 84) said; “the most complicated problem in teaching English as a second and foreign language is to construct motivation in the classroom”. That might be because teachers do not know what problems lying behind t...