| Description: | Historically, the word, ‘motivation’ comes from the Latin root ‘movere’ which means to move. In its literal meaning motivation is the process of arousing movement in the organism. Motivation is the central factor in the effective management of the process of learning. It is concerned with the inculcation and stimulation of the learner’s interest in the learning activities. It is the process of arousing, directing, maintaining and controlling one’s interest in a particular activity. In other words motivation is an energy change that arouses, directs, and maintains behaviour of an organism to act for achieving a specific goal. It is a combination of forces which initiates,directs, and sustain behaviour towards specific goal. Motivation explains ‘why’ of the behaviour.
Motivation is the “energy” in learning process which initiate activate, direct, regulate, and control learning activity and the behaviour of the learner. It also gives sustaining effect in the learning process and reduces the tension and give satisfaction in the achievement. |
