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What makes a person want to learn? Motivation in language learning

The involvement of significant others

Motivation in foreign and L2

Personality of the person introducing the activity

Gardner

Dornyei

Components involved in L2

"Language are unlike any other subject taught in a classroom in that they involve the acquisition of skills and behaviour patterns which are characteristic of another community"(Gardner)

Learner level

Socio-educational of language learning

Language level

Motivation: the combination of effort plus desire to achieve the goal of learning plus favourable attitudes towards learning a language.

The way in which the person presents the activity

Situation level

Integrative and instrumental orientations

Feedback

The role of teacher

Rewards

A cognitive view of motivation

Setting and achieving goals

Learnes' belief about themselves

we decide what to do

Choice

Performance goals: look smart

A sense of agency

Motivational style

Locus of causality: people see themselves or others as the cause of their actions.

origins & pawns (de Charms)

Learned helplessness

Learning goals: becoming smarter

Motivation: is why people decide to act in certain ways.

Mastery oriented

Internal Factors

  • Intrinsic interest
  • Perceived value of activity
  • Sense of agency
  • Mastery
  • Self-concept
  • Attitudes
  • Confidence, Anxiety

Locus of control: involves their perception of whether they are subsequently in control of their actions.

Effectiveness motivation

Self-worth concern

Self-efficacy for learning (Bandura's theory)

Effort- avoidance motivation (Rollett)

Role of the teacher

Attunement strategy

Motivation in language learning

Arousal

A social constructivist perspective

CURIOSITY

Achievement motivation: the need to achieve.

Motivation: the urge to release the tension and satisfy basic Human needs.

Motivation will differ from individual to individual.

People highly motivated or aroused:

  • their minds and bodies are completely involved
  • their concentration is very deep
  • they know what they want to do
  • they know how well they are doing
  • they are not worried about failing
  • time passes very quickly

Contextual influences, culture, context and social situation

Total involvement: FLOW EXPERIENCE

Optimal Arousal: a level that humans and animals achieve in order not to meet other needs.

Definition of MOTIVATION

Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation

External factors

  • Parents, teachers
  • Feedback
  • Rewards
  • Punishments
  • The environment
  • Context (social, cutural)

A state of cognitive and emotional arousal, which leads to a conscious decision to act, and which gives rise to a period of sustained intellectual and/or physical effort in order to attain a previously set goal.

INTRINSIC EXTRINSIC

preference for challenge VS preference for easy work

curiosity/ interest VS pleasing teacher

independent mastery VS dependence on teacher in

figuring out problems

independent judgement VS reliance on teacher's judgement

about what to do

internal criteria for success VS external criteria for success

A model of motivation

Motivation involves sustaining interest and investing time and energy into putting in the necessary effort to achieve certain goals.

Initiating motivation

Sustaining motivation

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