【正文】 tance of promoting students in learning process and ensuring the existing motivation not be undermined by the teaching itself. (Moore 2000). Therefore, it is mon to say that a teaching method is also a vital aspect for a good teacher besides his wide knowledge. During this time, more and more English teachers have realized the importance of this problem so that they have been making their efforts to reform the traditional teaching methods. In the teaching of modern English, motivation plays a crucial role in the classroom teaching. The author of this paper focuses on how to effectively encourage and motivate students to engage in their learning in the classroom.2. Motivation and English teaching The definition of motivationAccording to Brown (1987), motivation is monly thought of as an inner drive, impulse, emotion, or desire that moves one to a particular action. More specifically, human beings universally have needs or drives that are innate, yet their intensity is environmentally conditioned. The description captures the essence of motivation, that is to say, motivation that consists of several variables such as need and interest can be intrinsic or extrinsic. Types of motivationEducational psychologists divided motivation into two categories: intrinsic motivation (internal to the person) and extrinsic motivation (outside the person). “Intrinsic motivation exists when the source of motivation lies within the individual and task.” (Omrod, 1999) It is clear that in learning, students are motivated in different ways and to different degrees. Intrinsic motivation is to undertake an activity “for its own sake, for enjoyment it provides, the learning it permits, or the feelings of acplishment it evokes.” In contrast, extrinsic motivation exists when the source of motivation lies outside of the individual and the task being performed.” (Omrod, 1999). In other words, extrinsic motivation may derives from the different needs of human beings such as, needs for achievement, needs for approval and needs for affiliation. However motivation is defined, there is one thing in mon, that is, the primary purpose of stressing motivation is to encourage the students to bee engaged in appropriate learning rather than inappropriate activities. This article will thus focus on several approaches suggested by some practicing teachers, which, through development, will be likely to help increase students’ motivation in the process of English learning and teaching. Motivation and classroom teachingOne of the pressing problems confronting all teachers is how to improve students’ performance in this course. We use the same textbook and do the same exercises. However, gradually, students turn into individuals with different understanding, different skills, and different language abilities no matter how hard the teacher tries to help them. These individual differences are influenced by many factors, such as language aptitude, motivation, learning strategies, memory, personality, gender, age, and intelligence.Clearly, teachers have no influence over a learner’s intrinsic motivation for learning foreign language. Learners e into our classrooms from different backgrounds and life experiences, all of which have contributed to their attitudes and motivation to learn the target language. The principal way that teachers can influence students’ motivation is by making the classroom a supportive environment in which students are stimulated, engaged in activities which are appropriate to their age, interests and cultural backgrounds, and, most importantly, where students can experience success. This in turn can contribute to positive motivation, leading to still greater success.3. Principles of motivating students in the classTeaching in the classroom is a way of munication between teacher and students. During this process, teacher and students share their thinking, experiences and knowledge. How to motivate students in the classroom should obey the following principles in classroom teaching. Enthusiasm principleTeachers should be enthusiastic in the way of motivating students to make them enjoyable and happy in their learning. Teacher is the students’ tutor, also is their friend and maid. Therefore, teacher should treat all students equally and be warmhearted with them. When the teachers really mean to do everything for the students, the students will feel a strong emotion. As a result, they will love the teacher and love this subject. Empathy principleThe Encyclopedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as the ability to imagine oneself in another places and understand others’ feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example is that how the actor or singer feels the part he is performing. The use of empathy is an important part of the approaches of English teaching in primary school. First, teachers’ emotion, characteristic and ability have a positive effect on students. Second, students are affected by their textbook, for instance, the article, the theme, etc. Therefore, the teacher in the class should be an excellent guider to inspire students. 4. Strategies of motivating students in teachingSince Rubin’s initial research on language learning strategies in the early 1970’s, many scholars, including Wong Fillmore (1989), Chen Hua and Zhang Yifang (2001), and Xu Yulong (2003) have focused on children’s learning strategies. To sum up, there are two strategies that are mon used in primary English teaching. Human center patternIn primary English teaching, Human center pattern is also called student center pattern. The author believes that human oriented principles should be carried out in English teaching, which concerns the following aspects: change the educational rational。 reform the teaching approach。 3. Teamsgamestournament (TGT)。 It is motivating。 Students have the chance to practice the newly learned language。 teachers can use some new games every