THE FIRST ENGLISH TEACHER AND ITS ROLE IN FORMING MOTIVATION TO LEARN ENGLISH

Abstract

The article raises a complex of problems associated with the low motivation of modern schoolchildren and students to learn foreign languages. The content of the article is determined by a three-part structure, which includes theoretical prerequisites, a pedagogical experiment based on the Financial University (Moscow), as well as methodological recommendations for increasing motivation. Statistical data based on the processing of personal data allowed the author to establish the “effect of alienation” from a foreign language due to “childhood traumas” as a result of “psychological incompatibility between the student and the teacher”. In the “literary” part of the article, the author recommends that schoolchildren and teachers read motivating works from world classics – Mark Twain’s “School Hill” and Valentin Rasputin’s “French Lessons”.