Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers - Dornyei, Zoltan
Zoltan Dornyei anglické Cambridge University Press 2013 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge University Press 184
Provides tools to enable teachers to improve their own
motivation, and thereby that of their students. A new approach to
motivation, focusing on the concept of 'vision'. Drawing on
visualisation research in sports, psychology and education, the
authors describe powerful ways by which imagining future scenarios
can promote motivation to learn a language. The book offers a rich
selection of motivati...
motivation, and thereby that of their students. A new approach to
motivation, focusing on the concept of 'vision'. Drawing on
visualisation research in sports, psychology and education, the
authors describe powerful ways by which imagining future scenarios
can promote motivation to learn a language. The book offers a rich
selection of motivational strategies to help students 'see'
themselves as competent language users, to experience the value of
knowing a foreign language and, ultimately, to invest effort into
learning it. It also explores how to re-ignite language teacher
enthusiasm, how to re-kindle it when it may be waning and how to
guard it when it is under threat.