Clues as a means of facilitating motivationin teaching english as a foreign language

The article deals with the problems of motivation in teaching EFL in relation to а fundamental pedagogical trend - student-centered education providing favorable conditions for learner individual development. Such development can be realized through effective teaching strategies that influence over student motivation. The learner’s motivation depends on how effectively the teacher is able to facilitate interest in students. Both intrinsic and extrinsic types of motivation are examined to show strong positive correlation between teachers’ motivational teaching practices and their learners’ motivation. One of the efficient means of stimulating motivation is using clues in teaching. The article defines the status of clues in a broad and narrow sense in the training system, their characteristics as teaching aids in application to concrete types of language activity and types of clues. The clues have been determined and classified into textual, reader’s thesaurus and technological as well. The technology of using these clues is demonstrated so as to show the role of different clues in fostering motivation and learner autonomy.