The effect of motivation on discpline problems among secondary schools learners : the case of fiest year literary stream at ahmed benzakri secondary school

Abstract

It is clearly noticed that the educational level in the Algerian classrooms is decreasing through time due to many reasons, especially lack of motivation and decreased desire towards learning. Additionally, some learners do not work neither at school nor at home. As a result, their skills will show up not in learning but in creating discipline problems. In fact, Classroom discipline has become the subject matter of many specialists in the field of educational psychology especially after acute exacerbations of discipline problems which stand as an obstacle to the teaching and learning operation. And since the majority of those who are affected by this issue are teachers and learners, no wonder then if many researchers place a strong emphasis on several issues related to classroom disciplinary problems. Therefore, motivation plays a significant role in giving a new impetus to the learners to put more accentuated focus on their studies and avoid creating problems inside the classroom. Accordingly, the present research work aims at investigating the effect of motivation on discipline problems. In other terms, to which extent can motivation contribute to the reduction of disciplinary problems inside the classroom. To reach this end, questionnaires were given to the First year literary stream learners and teachers at ‘Ahmed Benzekri ’ secondary school. The results revealed that motivation positively affects discipline problems. Furthermore, the teachers show their willingness to use motivation as a technique to overcome those problems.