<正> What is motivation? What is extrinsic motivation? What are thefactors affecting extrinsic motivation? Does extrinsic motivation haveanything to do with teachers’teaching and students’learning?Motivation is something that can raise one’s strong reason to dothings,or to arouse the desire to learn and the desire to please.It canbe subdivided into intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.Intrinsic motivation,generally speaking,is concerned with biogenic,complex inherited instincts