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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Motivation Unit 9



MOTIVATION UNIT 9
The unit 9 is about Motivation, this unit is defined what is motivation and who are the main participants of it, motivation has to be focus on the target language culture meanly. Teachers should promote the self-confidence on students to learn successfully a language; this process also helps to build students’ independence

A teacher has to personalize the learners’ process and contents in order to achieve the lesson´s goals. In the classroom, teacher and students are the active part of the learning process; that is why a teacher should look for activities that match with the students’ interests and those topics maybe relevant for their daily lives, too. 

To create a good environment inside of the classroom, we have to look for a comfortable one; in order to activate students’ brain and creativity, which helps to make a lesson active and productive, so the knowledge can be acquire easily and faster, this has to be really important for an foreign language learning classroom because it demands a lot effort from the students and teachers.


As many coursebooks show many activities and contents we as teacher are able to choose the most relevant one to keep our students interests. So, we have to identify the differences between unmotivated (no motivation at all) and demotivated (lost the motivation during the process) students to look for the most appropriate contents and activities for our students.

Here are some links that will help you with more information about Motivation in the classroom:
  • http://busyteacher.org/6943-teachers-top-10-ways-to-motivate-students.html    
  • http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tsms
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIMpLbOxAA
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9yOOwGYYfU  

6 comments:

  1. I really appreciate the links you published since they are very teachery and reliable. I watched them and they wake my interest up
    So that I learned teaching strategies for applying in my classes.

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    1. I really pleased to know that my extra information is useful for you.
      Thank you

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  2. Dear Estefanía ,
    I think is a very interesting article about the motivation. I believe all that we do is because something is motivate us and is the same with the English. In my experience have a motivation's mix between the intrinsically and the extrinsically. I like the foreing languages ( English in this case ) and I need to learn for my teaching language.

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    1. I like that you can express yourself through my blog.
      Thank you Verito

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  3. Estefy your information is clear and goes straight to the point because if we want to motivate our students, for a better undersatnding and learning, we should promote their self-confidence and so also build students’ independence. However in order to achieve it, teachers should match Students' interest to the topic to personalize the learners’ active process and contents.

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    1. I am please to know that this piece of information can be useful for you professional life.
      Thank you Gabi for you comment

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