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Setting the Stage

Setting the Stage. Fostering Motivation in the L2 Classroom. Teacher as Facilitator. Gets students’ wheels turning Turns students toward their own abilities Helps students channel their abilities to fruitful directions. (Brown, p. 94).

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Setting the Stage

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  1. Setting the Stage Fostering Motivation in the L2 Classroom

  2. Teacher as Facilitator • Gets students’wheels turning • Turns students toward their own abilities • Helps students channel their abilities to fruitful directions • (Brown, p. 94)

  3. A Good Motivation Construct is bound to beEclectic

  4. Food for Motivation “When the educational environment provides... • Optimal challenges • Rich sources of stimulation and • A context of autonomy …this motivational wellspring in learning is likely to flourish.” • (ZoltanDornyei, p. 275)

  5. Components of Language Learning Motivation • Learning Situation Level • Course-Specific • Teacher-Specific • Group Specific • Learner Level • Personality • Need for achievement • Self-Confidence Language Level • Culture • Community • Usefulness of L2

  6. Language Level • 1. Usefulness of L2 • Sociocultural • Cross-Cultural • Authentic Contact • Film and TV • Music • Special Guests • Pen-Friends • Discussion Groups • Cultural Field Trips • Analogies to the new • familiar • Volunteer and • job opportunities

  7. Learner Level • 2. Self Confidence • 3. Goals • 4. Climate • Involve students • Praise and positive • feedback • Teach strategies to • Problem solve • Process New Info • Sense of achievement • and competence • Test and exams • Goals: tailoredand • attainable • Attribution • Classroom Climate: • Comfortable/Secure • Fun • Anxiety-Reducing

  8. Learning Situation Level • 5.Teacher/Rapport • 6.Autonomy • 7. Personal • Relevance • 8.Interest • 9.Group • 10.Task • Teacher: • Congruence • Acceptance • Natural/empathy • Student Responsibility • Goal attainment • Organization • Design of Lessons • Group Culture • Task Instruction Clear • Interesting Course Content • Authentic, unusual • Visual • Vary interaction • Imagination, Suspense • Explore Resources

  9. What Practices are really most effective in fostering motivation? 1. Usefulness of L2 2. Self Confidence 3. Goals 4. Climate 4. Teacher/Rapport 5. Autonomy 6. Personal Relevance 7. Interest 8. Group 9. Task • How would you rate these practices based on your own experience as a student?

  10. Results of a BYU L2 Teacher-Student Study • 6. Goals • 7. Group Culture • 8. Reward • 9. Peer-modeling/Finished Product • Teacher/Rapport • Climate • Task/Self-confidence • Personal Relevance/Interest • Language Usefulness/Autonomy

  11. To Remember • “…[T]eacherswho are unaware of what motivates students will often make assumptions about the learners’ motives.” • “Instructors should discover what motivates students, employ teaching methods and materials that appeal to leaners’ initial motivations, and… create new motivation to continue learning the language in a classroom setting and on their own” (AsheleyRuesch, 19 – 20)

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