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Thursday, November 11, 2004

 
Creating the Basic Motivational Conditions
1Demonstrate and talk about your own enthusiasm for the course material and how it affects you personally.
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2Take the students learning very seriously.
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3Develop a personal relationship with your students.
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4Develop a collaborative relationship with the students'parents.
5Create a pleasant and supportive atmosphere in the classroom.
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6Promote the development of group cohesiveness.
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7Formulate the norms explicitly, and have them discussed and accepted by the learners.
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8Have the group norms consistently observed.
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Total Strategies Used in Quadrant 1
7?
Percentage of total strategies used in Quadrant 1
87.50%

Generating Initial Motivation
9Promote the learners' language related valuse by presenting peer role models.
10Raise the learners' intrinsic interest in the L2 learning process
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11Promote 'integrative values by encouraging a positive and open-minded disposition towards the L2 and its speakers
12Promote the students' awareness of the instrumental values associated with the knowledge of an L2
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13Increase the students' expectancy of success in particular tasks and learning in general.
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14Increase the students' goal-orientedness by formulating explicit class goals accepted by them.
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15Make the curriculum and the teaching materials relevant to the students.
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16Help to create realistic learner beliefs.
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Total Strategies Used in Quadrant 2
6?
Percentage of total strategies used in Quadrant2
75%

Maintaining and Protecting Motivation
17Make learning more stimulating and enjoyable by breaking the monotony of classroom events.
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18Make learning stimulating and enjoyable for the learners by increasing the attractiveness of the task.
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19Make learning stimulating and enjoyable for the learners by enlisting them as active task participants.
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20Present and administer tasks in a motivating way.
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21Use goal-setting methods in your classroom.
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22Use contracting methods with your students to formalise their goal commitment.
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23Provide learners with regular experience of success.
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24Build your learners confidence by providing regular encouragement.
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25Help dimish language anxiety by removing or reducing the anxiety-provoking elements in the learning environment.
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26Build your learners confidence in their learning abilities by teaching them various learner strategies.
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27Allow learners to maintain a positive social image while engaged in the learning tasks.
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28Increase student motivation by promoting cooperation among the learners.
x
29Increase student motivation by actively promoting learner autonomy.
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30Increase the student' self-motivating capacity.
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Total Strategies Used in Quadrant3
14?
Percentage of total strategies used in Quadrant 3
100%

Encouraging Positive Self-Evaluation
31Promote effort attributions in your students.
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32Provide students with positive information feedback.
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33Increase learner satisfaction.(celebrate achievements, display work)
34Offer rewards in a motivational manner.
35Use grades in a motivating manner, reducing as much as possible their demotivating impact.
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Total Strategies Used in Quadrant 4
3
Percentage of total strategies used in Quadrant 4
60%
Taken from Doernyei, Z. Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press 2001
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