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Motivating language learners /
"Since the advent of a 'Languages for All' policy and later the National Curriculum requirement for all pupils to take a foreign language up to the end of Key Stage 4, the problem of motivating reluctant learners has retained a place close to the top of the modern language teacher...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clevedon [U.K.] :
Multilingual Matters,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Modern languages in practice ;
12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Challenge of the National Curriculum
- National Curriculum Implications
- Characteristics of the 'Demotivated'/'Disaffected' Pupil
- Motivation re: Foreign Language Learning versus Motivation re: Learning in General
- Purpose of this Book and the Research Which Informs It
- Research Design
- What is Motivation?
- General Definition of Motivation
- Definition of Motivation for the Purposes of this Study
- Structure for the Exposition of Perspectives and Research on the Definition of Motivation
- Gardner's Socio-educational Model
- Ajzen's Model of Planned Behaviour
- Filling the Information Gap
- Areas of the Study Covered by 'Attitude Towards the Behaviour'
- Areas of the Study Covered by 'Subjective Norm'
- Perceived Behavioural Control
- Getting Inside the Pupils' Heads
- What are the Gaps?
- Research Methodology
- The Questionnaires
- The Interviews
- The Schools
- Attitudes Brought to the Classroom
- Previous Experience of Foreign Language Learning
- Extent of Enjoyment of Previous Foreign Language Learning Experience
- Anticipation of German, French and Other Subjects
- So What Happens to All That Enthusiasm?
- Influence of Home Environment
- Encouragement from Parents
- Pupils' Perceptions of People from Other Countries
- Leeds Pupils' Experience of Travel Abroad
- Desire to Visit Other Countries
- Willingness to Learn Language of Country to be Visited
- Job in a Foreign Country?
- Attitude to the Germans, French and British
- The Pupils' Perspective from the Classroom
- Plus ca change?