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Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers: Building Vision in the Language Classroom

Paperback by Dörnyei, Zoltan (University of Nottingham); Kubanyiova, Magdalena (University of Birmingham)

Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers: Building Vision in the Language Classroom

£38.01

ISBN:
9781107606647
Publication Date:
4 Dec 2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
196 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 13 - 18 Aug 2026
Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers: Building Vision in the Language Classroom

Description

Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers provides tools to enable teachers to improve their own motivation, and thereby that of their students. A new approach to motivation, focusing on the concept of 'vision'. Drawing on visualisation research in sports, psychology and education, the authors describe powerful ways by which imagining future scenarios can promote motivation to learn a language. The book offers a rich selection of motivational strategies to help students 'see' themselves as competent language users, to experience the value of knowing a foreign language 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.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Background knowledge; 3. Generating and enhancing vision in language learners; 4. Revitalising language teacher motivation; 5. Conclusion: visionary teaching, visionary learning.

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