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Students Motivation

This document discusses student motivation in learning English. It defines motivation as the psychic energy that pushes us to undertake or sustain an action or behavior. Motivation includes the reasons for wanting to learn, the strength of desire, personal characteristics, and estimation of task demands. The document also discusses factors that affect learner motivation, including teacher attitudes, parental involvement, classroom environment, and maintaining positive motivation through stimulating lessons, appropriate tasks, goal-setting, and developing learner autonomy and cooperation.

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Students Motivation

This document discusses student motivation in learning English. It defines motivation as the psychic energy that pushes us to undertake or sustain an action or behavior. Motivation includes the reasons for wanting to learn, the strength of desire, personal characteristics, and estimation of task demands. The document also discusses factors that affect learner motivation, including teacher attitudes, parental involvement, classroom environment, and maintaining positive motivation through stimulating lessons, appropriate tasks, goal-setting, and developing learner autonomy and cooperation.

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Students

MOTIVATION
by Monse heredia
What is
motivation?
Motivation is the psychic energy that pushes us to
undertake or sustain an action or a behavior. Its
disappearance necessarily entails the abandonment of what
is being done. This is why it is much more difficult to achieve
objectives when there is a lack of motivation.
(Rogers,2013)
In educational contexts, motivation is what triggers us to
act to learn English, to learn to teach English, or to teach it.
This basic explanation acknowledges the four elements that
it includes:
* The reasons why we want to learn
* The strength of our desire to learn
* The kind of person we are
* The task and our estimation of what it requires of us (McDonough, 2007, pp. 369-371
Students motivation

Veenman(1984) found that teachers ranked problems about


motivationg pupils as the second most serious source of
difficulty , preceding other obviously important issue such as
effective use of different teaching methods, a knowledge of
the subject matter and the effective motivation can be
increased remains a prevailing issue por seasoned norms “norms
of mediocrity”
In the classrom are regularly reported to be basic hidrances to
effective teaching (Daniels,1994). In the light of this, it is
hard to believe that until the mid-1990s there had been no
serious attempts in the L2 literature to design motivational
strategies for classrom application. With the shift from social
psychological to more cognitive- situated perspectives in the
1990s, the increased focus on classrom motivation led to a
number of publications on motivational techniques
THE FACTORS AFFECTING LEARNERS’
MOTIVATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
EDUCATION

Teachers´attitudes Parental factors

Classroom features or
environmental factors
Motivational conditions
er a ple
te ac h asa
piate go o d su
atm por t and
p n
pp ro
a viour s a nd he osph tive
it h t
h a
be ionship s w clas ere in
srom the
relat student s

a cohesive learner
group with
appropiate group
norms
Mainting and protecting
motivation
Making learning stimulating Presenting tasks in a Setting specific
and enjoyable motivating way learner goals

Protecting the learners´self- Allowing learners to maintain Creating learner


esteem and increasing their self-
confidence a positive social image autonomy

Promoting self- Promoting cooperation


motivating strategies among the learners

(Dornyei’s 2001a: 29)


Thanks for
your
Para Carla attention!
Para Juliana

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