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Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers

    Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers

    Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers

    Building Vision in the Language Classroom
    Zoltan Dörnyei, Magdalena Kubanyiova
    British English
    December 2013
    Available
    Paperback
    9781107606647
    $61.00
    USD
    Paperback

    Product description

    This volume presents a new approach to motivation that focuses on the concept of 'vision'. Drawing on visualisation research in sports, psychology and education, the authors describe powerful ways by which imagining future scenarios in one's mind's eye can promote motivation to learn a foreign language. The book offers a rich selection of motivational strategies that can help students to 'see' themselves as potentially competent language users, to experience the value of knowing a foreign language in their own lives and, ultimately, to invest effort into learning it. It also explores how to re-ignite language teacher enthusiasm, how to re-kindle it when it may be waning and how to guard it when it is under threat.

    Key features

    • Provides a wide range of techniques and principles to build classroom motivation through vision.
    • Discusses links between the motivation of language teachers and learners.
    • Include a rich selection of strategies for inspiring and protecting language teachers’ motivation and vision.