Promoting Student Motivation in EFL Classroom: Through Extended Music Education

Teaching and learning English as a second or foreign language has not been easy either for teachers or for learners. Teachers face problems while teaching it while learners face difficulties while learning it. Many factors contribute to these problems and difficulties and lack of motivation on the part of learners or demotivated learners is one of the most common problems faced by the teachers which affects both teachers and learners in negative way. Motivated learners are a dream of every EFL teachers but it is hardly realized. However, it is also important to note that teachers enjoy and lay a very significant role in EFL teaching and learning process. In this respect, the role thatEFL teachers can play in motivating their learners inside and outside the EFL classrooms is to introduce or extend music education and utilize it as a strategy to motivate and promote motivation among learners. Briefing motivating learners through music attempt has also been done to systematically propose certain practical strategies for teachers to learn so that the aims and objectives of teaching English are fulfilled easily.