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The English language subject is one of the subjects studied by students of the department of educational and psychological sciences in the College of Education, University of Mosul. This course includes the study of a number of English texts specialized in education and psychology, followed by a number of language exercises related to the text presented. The researchers noticed that there is a weakness in students ’achievement in this subject by surveying their grades for the previous academic year, and this subject is taught for two consecutive years (first grade and second grade). This means that students suffer from a weakness in motivation to learn this subject, especially since it is a non-essential subject and is a foreign language for students. When surveying students’ views on this subject through an open questionnaire presented to them, it was found that they suffer from the teaching method followed by the relevant subject teacher, as this method is based on translating the text into the mother tongue (Arabic) and is not based on a correct reading process that gains students' comprehension and make them compete with each other to understand the text and explain it to others. This method failed to develop students' absorptive abilities and made them lose their motivation to learn the English language in return. Accordingly, the two researchers attempted to address this problem by finding a new teaching model in line with the students' desires and abilities and gaining the motivation to learn the English language. Thus, the current research problem can be identified by the following question: 1) What is the effect of a teaching model based on social interaction in providing students of the department of educational and psychological sciences with motivation to learn the English language textbook?. (Published abstract)