The Effect of Positive Thinking on Students’ Motivation Case of Study: First year English students at Mostaganem University

Abstract

The present study aims at identifying the relationship between student’s motivation and positive thinking. To achieve this purpose, we attempted to cover a study that was divided into three chapters which highlight students’ positive and negative attitudes. We, in fact, sought to shed the light on students’ motivation and its effectiveness in their learning process and we tried to propose some helpful elements and activities that urge to solve students’ learning issues. Therefore, our objective is primarily to examine the suitability and effectiveness of positive thinking on students’ motivation and academic performance. We assume that positive thinking helps to increase learners’ motivation in their learning process by providing different activities in oral sessions. In order to test this hypothesis, we used an interview and a questionnaire to collect data. These two were administered to first year license students at the English department of Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University, Mostaganem . The findings have revealed an influence of positive thinking over students’ motivation in a manner that increases their energy and effort.