MOTIVATION
Throught this unit, I have learned that motivation in the classroom is very important because if we have both kind of motivation intrinsically(personal motivation) and extrinsically (external motivation), students will have a reason to study.
The second one is of our interests, because teachers will be who provide this external motivation, and so we will have appropriate enviroment for mutual learning, where both sides, students and teachers contribute ideas to the class because of their interest in the same.
Sometimes students are demotivated because the teacher does not show interest in what the student wants to learn or because maybe you need to use other strategies to help students. At this point teachers should use the motivation in their favor in classes for students to have confidence at what they do during the activities.
In orden to use motivation in the classroom first, we must take into account what are the interests of students depending on the class. If they are adults, they want to study in order to have a job or achieve their goals for the semester and there are other students who want to learn the target language through history, song lyrics, culture or movies. So once we have recognize what students wants, the teacher must thus be able to use this to draw the attention of students and have all their interest. We can use work in groups with similar topics, with individual works giving them independence and autonomy.
In the following link, you will find strategies to use motivations and diffrent kind of motivation.
Peoplelearn.homestead.com,. (2014). Retrieved 26 November 2014, from http://peoplelearn.homestead.com/beduc/chapter_8
Also you can see this video to motivate your students.
YouTube,. (2014). Motivational Video For Students. Retrieved 26 November 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mb-0qbq984
I agree with you my classmate I consider that motivation is really important in a classroom or outside of it because in that way learners will achieve all of their goals, so the video is nice for us as future teachers to find ways to teach them in a good environment.
ResponderEliminaryes when you present a video at the beginning of the class, students will feel without stress and with motivation to start with the activities and also we need to choose what kind of videos to present, they should be related with the topic that you are going to teach
ResponderEliminarI also consider motivation is an important aspect because it make students want to learn the language and continue with the process
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