Raising the EFL Learners Motivation to Enhance their Competence of Writing Essays: the Case of 2nd Year Licence Students at Ghardaia University

Abstract

The present study investigates the influence of motivation on enhancing EFL learners’ competenceofwritingessays.EFL learners may bein competent in tasksrelatedtoes say writingdue to avariety of reasons including the lack of motivation and guidance. So, this researchraisesthe problemof whichmotivationstrategiesthe teachers can followto developtheirstudentswriting competenceofessays.Itaimsatreducing the phenomen on of the learners inability to write correct essays via emphasizing the effective role of motivation. The study depends on adescriptive type of research through describing session so fwriting with 2 nd year license students at the University of Ghardaia.The quantitative approachis followedvia administering a questionnaireto100studentsof the samelevel. There sultsrevealthatmotivationhasa positive impact on learners writing competence where the students who were exposed to positive reinforcements produced well-written essays.