metholody
Motivation
1) Motivation- an urge, a drive to engage in the learning process
2) Reasons for learning language: school curriculum, qualifications/job, TLC (Target Language Community), when Ls live there and learn L2(second lg or official lg). In methodology we talk about EFL (English as a foreign language) and ESL (English as a second language), however, it happens that these terms are treated as synonyms, ESP ( English for Specific Purposes). Before the teacher begins lessons with a group of Ls, he/she must know what their expectations, needs are. That is why, needs should be analyzed. Students need to know more about the country, to integrate with people.
English for Specific Purposes:
- EOP – English for Occupational Purposes
- EAP – English for Academic Purposes
- EST – English for Science and Technology
3) Motivation means: willingness to invest effort in lg activities and to progress, an internal drive that encourages somebody to pursue a course of action, the biggest single factor affecting a learner’s success, the biggest urge to learn and be successful.
4) Factors that influence students’ motivation to lg learning: attitude to the lg/country; aptitude (inborn qualities that make lg learning easy ; Cognitive skills that are innate and that make lg learning relatively easy); previous lg learning experiences; students’ self-esteem, teacher
5) Extrinsic motivation- that derives/comes from the influence of some external stimulus, incentives. As far as motivation to learning English is concerned nowadays all teenage and adult students are extrinsically motivated. They simply don’t have any choice but to learn it.
- instrumental motivation – when lg becomes an instrument, a tool to achieve some external reward e.g. to get promoted, to pass an external exam. Angela wants to be promoted by her boss. That is why she wants to pass a CAE exam. She is characterized by instrumental motivation
- integrative motivation – when the
1) Motivation- an urge, a drive to engage in the learning process
2) Reasons for learning language: school curriculum, qualifications/job, TLC (Target Language Community), when Ls live there and learn L2(second lg or official lg). In methodology we talk about EFL (English as a foreign language) and ESL (English as a second language), however, it happens that these terms are treated as synonyms, ESP ( English for Specific Purposes). Before the teacher begins lessons with a group of Ls, he/she must know what their expectations, needs are. That is why, needs should be analyzed. Students need to know more about the country, to integrate with people.
English for Specific Purposes:
- EOP – English for Occupational Purposes
- EAP – English for Academic Purposes
- EST – English for Science and Technology
3) Motivation means: willingness to invest effort in lg activities and to progress, an internal drive that encourages somebody to pursue a course of action, the biggest single factor affecting a learner’s success, the biggest urge to learn and be successful.
4) Factors that influence students’ motivation to lg learning: attitude to the lg/country; aptitude (inborn qualities that make lg learning easy ; Cognitive skills that are innate and that make lg learning relatively easy); previous lg learning experiences; students’ self-esteem, teacher
5) Extrinsic motivation- that derives/comes from the influence of some external stimulus, incentives. As far as motivation to learning English is concerned nowadays all teenage and adult students are extrinsically motivated. They simply don’t have any choice but to learn it.
- instrumental motivation – when lg becomes an instrument, a tool to achieve some external reward e.g. to get promoted, to pass an external exam. Angela wants to be promoted by her boss. That is why she wants to pass a CAE exam. She is characterized by instrumental motivation
- integrative motivation – when the