I am fully aware of the fact that the above mentioned data are definitely limited as a number of students who
responded to the questions are small and a scope of questions is slightly narrow.
Therefore, motivational factors, such as building a deeper personal relationship with students, involving learners in
developing a curriculum for a particular subject in English, or offering rewards, are simply out of question.
However, the questionnaires certainly uncover the paramount strategies which the university learners require in their
learning process and which hopefully motivate them in studying English. And teachers should inevitably focus on
their learners’ needs. Among motivational driving forces I would emphasize teacher’s endless enthusiasm to
learners’ effort to express their beliefs, ideas, opinions, and thoughts in a foreign language, teacher’s encouragement
to make them feel free to speak even with errors, and in this way to make them more confident to speak in L2, or
simply show them how they could succeed in mastering L2 by providing them with some learning strategies.
Finally, I think that showing enthusiasm for teaching and students’ learning inevitably leads to a classroom