TY - JFULL AU - Mahmoud I. Syam and Osama K. El-Hafy PY - 2015/5/ TI - The Best Methods of Motivating and Encouraging the Students to Study: A Case Study T2 - International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences SP - 1361 EP - 1365 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10005401 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 100, 2015 N2 - With lack of student motivation, there will be a little or no real learning in the class and this directly effects student achievement and test scores. Some students are naturally motivated to learn, but many students are not motivated, they do care little about learning and need their instructors to motivate them. Thus, motivating students is part of the instructor’s job. It’s a tough task to motivate students and make them have more attention and enthusiasm. As a part of this research, a questionnaire has been distributed among a sample of 155 students out of 1502 students from Foundation Program at Qatar University. The questionnaire helped us to determine some methods to motivate the students and encourage them to study such as variety of teaching activities, encouraging students to participate during the lectures, creating intense competition between the students, using instructional technology, not using grades as a threat and respecting the students and treating them in a good manner. Accordingly, some hypotheses are tested and some recommendations are presented. ER -