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Supporting students' self-determined motivation to learn languages
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Abstract:
There are many reasons, some of which are better than others for sustaining motivation over the long run. Research evidence suggests that a personally relevant, self-engaged, and inherently interested orientation to language study supports engagement in the learning process, and thereby a variety of positive learning outcomes. Moreover, feelings of pressure, whether from others or self- imposed, can undermine motivation. Teachers can effectively foster students’ self-determined motivation by supporting their sense of autonomy, competence, and connectedness with other people. Drawing from recent conceptualizations of language learning motivation as a complex, dynamic system, I point out how reasons, engagement, and feelings of autonomy, competence, and relatedness reciprocally influence each other across the duration of the language course. Likewise, I discuss how students’ motivational orientation and engagement and teachers’ motivational orientation and engagement mutually interact in a transactional relationship.
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Keyword:
Engagement; Language Learning; Motivations; Self-Determined
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URL: https://doi.org/10.7939/R39K46714 https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/9e788485-66d0-48ba-8375-fb5d3c5dc103
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