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Motivating students can be a difficult task, the rewards are more than worth it.

Motivated
students are more excited to learn and participate. Simply put: Teaching a class full of motivated
students is enjoyable for teacher and student alike. Some students are self-motivated, with a
natural love of learning. But even with the students who do not have this natural drive, a great
teacher can make learning fun and inspire them to reach their full potential.

Here are five things I do to keep my students excited about learning:

1. Encourage Learners.
students look to teachers for approval and positive reinforcement, and are more likely to
be enthusiastic about learning if they feel their work is recognized and valued.
2. Get them involved
Giving students a sense of ownership allows them to feel accomplished and encourages
active participation in class.
3. Offer Incentives
Incentives can range from small to large giving a special privilege to an exemplary student,
to a class pizza party if the average test score rises. Rewards give students a sense of
accomplishment and encourage them to work with a goal in mind.
4. Get Creative
Teach through games and discussions instead of lectures, encourage students to debate
and enrich the subject matter with visual aids, like colorful charts, diagrams and videos.
5. Draw Connections to Real Life
Showing them that a subject is used every day by real people gives it new importance.
They may never be excited about algebra but if they see how it applies to them, they may
be motivated to learn attentively.

I provide learners with opportunities to develop each skill: students listen (to the teacher
use the target language, to a song, to one another in a pair activity), speak (pronunciation
practice, greetings, dialogue creation or recitation, songs, substitution drills, oral speed
reading, role play), read (instructions, written grammar drills, cards for playing games,
flashcards) and write (fill-in-the-blank sheets, sentences that describe a feeling, sight or
experience, a dialogue script, a journal entry).

Main goals:
Make your students independent of the teacher
Help the learner to become independent and become his/her own mentor
provide students with the tools to be able to learn on their own
make your students part of the decision making about classroom activities

The role of teacher in developing learner autonomy:


model role
moderator
facilitator

How autonomy starts in classroom:


From my point of view it is very important to speak to your students in English most of the
times. Of course, it is difficult to do this with a beginner class, for example, there must be some
instructions in the native language in order to be clear about the goals of a lesson or a
grammar rule. However, it's true that the more you speak as a teacher in the foreign language
the more the students get familiarized with this new language.

Regarding higher levels (e.g. B 2), role playing could really enhance students' oral skills. To do
this, you'd rather motivate students to participate in the exercise engaging them at roles they
adore (these may be roles of athletes, actors, singers, heroes etc.). Also, a good solutions to
improve their speaking and listening skills could be watching films with English subtitles which
later on could be removed when students feel more confident to understand what they listen to.
This should be done gradually in order to make them feel this is their choice and responsibility,
something which stems from the fact that their "oral self-efficacy beliefs" got increased.
Actually, we mustn't forget that first of all as educators we have to guide children in the learning
process not to make all the decisions for the ways and the pace of learning instead of them.

Another constructive way to help students improve oral skills is let them talk in English via
Skype in pairs or as a whole group as they would naturally do with their friends using their
native language. They should talk about themselves, their interests, their school performance
or their views about common themes, daily news and future plans. Furthermore, I suppose a
useful idea would be reading books or magazines they like written in English and then trying to
briefly narrate the stories in class and answer to questions asked by their classmates about the
stories (plot, main events, personality traits of the characters etc.).

Main skill Subskill Reading Listening/reading for detail Deducing meaning from context
Note-taking Skimming Proofreading Editing Listening/reading for gist, global
understanding Inferring attitude, feeling, mood Predicting Scanning

Listening Listening/reading for detail Deducing meaning from context Intensive


listening/reading Listening/reading for gist, global understanding Inferring attitude,
feeling, mood Predicting Speaking Inferring attitude, feeling, mood Using interactive
strategies Summarising Paraphrasing Writing Proofreading Editing Summarising
Paraphrasing

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