Motivating Learning (Research and Resources in Language Teaching) - Hardcover

Dörnyei, Zoltán; Hadfield, Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113843759X ISBN 13: 9781138437593

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Motivation is a vital element in learning, and the most commonly cited explanation for success or failure in language learning. Jill Hadfield and Zoltan Dornyei present a new theory of motivation centred around the notion of the "~Ideal Future Language Self", arguing that if students have a rich and inspiring vision of themselves as successful future language learners and users, they will be motivated to work hard to actualise the vision and become that learner. This book: integrates the latest research in language teaching with innovative classroom practice offers suggestions on how the various components of the theory could be structured into a teaching sequence includes a variety of imaginative classroom activities designed to aid both student and teacher in creating and actualising the Ideal Self through visualisation, goal setting, task identification and planning, and a selection of appropriate learning strategies shows how teachers can undertake motivation-related research in their own classrooms This is an ideal guide to and activity book for the theory and practice of motivation in language learning for students and teachers alike.

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Jill Hadfield, Zoltán Dörnyei

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113843759X
• ISBN 13: 9781138437593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320