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Tuesday, October 05, 2004
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What struck me today about doing doernyei's checklist is how filling it out is getting easier as i get used to it, speedier, like a well-worn shoe, somehow smoother. I also notice (and this is the middle of the course, after the summer break, that in the maintaining and protecting motivation section i feel i am definitely more secure, sort of because i feel happy to see the faces again and we both know relatively what to expect of each other, and it feels good.
Creating the Basic Motivational Conditions
1 Demonstrate and talk about your own enthusiasm for the course material and how it affects you personally.
2 Take the students learning very seriously.
x
3 Develop a personal relationship with your students.
x
4 Develop a collaborative relationship with the students'parents.
5 Create a pleasant and supportive atmosphere in the classroom.
x
6 Promote the development of group cohesiveness.
x
7 Formulate the norms explicitly, and have them discussed and accepted by the learners.
x
8 Have the group norms consistently observed.
Total Strategies Used in Quadrant 1
5
Percentage of total strategies used in Quadrant 1
62.50%
Generating Initial Motivation
9 Promote the learners' language related valuse by presenting peer role models.
10 Raise the learners' intrinsic interest in the L2 learning process
x
11 Promote 'integrative values by encouraging a positive and open-minded disposition towards the L2 and its speakers
12 Promote the students' awareness of the instrumental values associated with the knowledge of an L2
x
13 Increase the students' expectancy of success in particular tasks and learning in general.
14 Increase the students' goal-orientedness by formulating explicit class goals accepted by them.
x
15 Make the curriculum and the teaching materials relevant to the students.
x
16 Help to create realistic learner beliefs.
x
Total Strategies Used in Quadrant 2
5
Percentage of total strategies used in Quadrant2
62.50%
Maintaining and Protecting Motivation
17 Make learning more stimulating and enjoyable by breaking the monotony of classroom events.
x
18 Make learning stimulating and enjoyable for the learners by increasing the attractiveness of the task.
x
19 Make learning stimulating and enjoyable for the learners by enlisting them as active task participants.
x
20 Present and administer tasks in a motivating way.
x
21 Use goal-setting methods in your classroom.
x
22 Use contracting methods with your students to formalise their goal commitment.
23 Provide learners with regular experience of success.
24 Build your learners confidence by providing regular encouragement.
x
25 Help dimish language anxiety by removing or reducing the anxiety-provoking elements in the learning environment.
x
26 Build your learners confidence in their learning abilities by teaching them various learner strategies.
x
27 Allow learners to maintain a positive social image while engaged in the learning tasks.
x
28 Increase student motivation by promoting cooperation among the learners.
x
29 Increase student motivation by actively promoting learner autonomy.
x
30 Increase the student' self-motivating capacity.
Total Strategies Used in Quadrant3
11
Percentage of total strategies used in Quadrant 3
78.50%
Encouraging Positive Self-Evaluation
31 Promote effort attributions in your students.
x
32 Provide students with positive information feedback.
x
33 Increase learner satisfaction.(celebrate achievements, display work)
34 Offer rewards in a motivational manner.
35 Use grades in a motivating manner, reducing as much as possible their demotivating impact.
x
Total Strategies Used in Quadrant 4
3
Percentage of total strategies used in Quadrant 4
60%
Taken from Doernyei, Z. Motivational Strategies in the Classroom. Cambridge University Press 2001
Renata 3:48 pm
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