Impact of Teacher’s Interactions on Student’s Motivation

Abstract

The goal of this research was to determine the value and impact of teacher-student interactions in student motivation in the Primary level of Bangladeshi context. Motivation has a significant role in student life, it helps them to know their skills, develop their learning, and create a connection with others. Teacher's capacity to create students' competence, intrigued in subjects instructed, and recognition of self-efficacy are all vital variables that impact students' motivation to learn. The researcher worked as a teacher in a well-known English medium school and carried out her studies for qualitative research, following the concepts of “Self-determination theory”. In order to accumulate her data in two segments, she followed observation and interview methods and for the findings, teacher and student perceptions in their interactions had been analyzed. Moreover, the researcher mentioned whether this interaction significantly impacted students' motivation or not. From the reviews of the literature and the results of this study, the teacher-student relationships were found to be critical to student success. It also has been shown that learners were found more included and appeared more enthusiastic about learning if the teacher fulfilled their needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness. The research findings consist of the analysis of observations and opinions of the learners. The findings mentions some important factors which are important to create an autonomous classroom. Further, there is mention, where the learners are challenged and the learners, who need extra attention in the classroom. The results of the study showed that there are several important factors that underpin students 'motivation in the classroom and that teachers need to take some initiative to become aware of the importance of students' personal development.