What is “motivation”?
In the previous post, I talked about the issues of my teaching styles.
That is, I haven't concerned about my students’ motivation so much.
What is "motivation"?
Gardner has proposed that motivation can account for a great deal of learner achievement.
In his Socio-Psychological Model of Motivation, he divides motivation into the two types of motivation; Extrinsic Motivation (Integrative Orientation & Instrumental Orientation) and Intrinsic Motivation.
In this model extrinsic motivation is more important than intrinsic motivation (Dőrnyei & Csizēr, 1998).
Dőrnyei (2001) made the counterargument in regard to Gardner’s model as follows: Although a great deal has been written in the past about what motivation is, describing its components and dimensions and how these influence learning, very little has been said about how this theoretical knowledge can be applied in the actual classroom (p.2).
He asserts that teachers need to consider what to do, what to teach in the classroom.
In my opinion, teachers'job is to teach students how to learn and to lead them to have intrinsic motivation in learning.
In the upcoming blog post, I will talk about why motivation is important in the language classroom.
REFERENCES
Dőrnyei, Z., & Csizēr, K. (1998). Ten commandments for motivating language learners: results of an empirical study. Language Teaching Research, 2,3, 203-229.
Dőrnyei, Z. (2001). Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press: UK.
