Abstract:

The author presents the study of high school students’ motivetion features while English learning. Two groups of schoolchildren were studied. The first group is where students study English. The second group is a control group where students study German. As a result, the author indicated the differences in the motivation features while foreign language learning in high school students of the experimental and control groups. In the relation to the studied foreign language there are changes from junior to senior classes.

Keywords: German, English, psychology, motivation, high school students