Friday, August 1, 2008

Second language learning

Motivation is a complex phenomenon. And there are a lot of ways to motivate the students and it breaks down into two parts. The first is related to the student, and the second is related to the instructor.
Motivation of the second language learning is a complex Phenomenon and there are two factors of this phenomenon. Students have many different problems in learning a language, and there are many ways to make them better. First of all, the relationship between the second language learning and the community that they live in they want to have more contact with the people that live there, and it’s also important that they speak the same language that the learner is learning. Second comes the difficulty to know if the attitude produces successful language learning which encourages positive attitude or something else that is related to the student, which can encourage positive attitude towards language learning. The third important factor is, if the student was willing to keep on learning. First: the learners' communicative needs.Second: the student's attitude towards the second language community, and that if the learners want to have more contact with the native speakers, so the learner can learn faster and be a better speaker.
- It is necessary for the instructor to generate and maintain learner's motivation. Some instructors give more attention to students who show more interest in the subject, and study hard. It's up to the instructor to make the class room a place that students enjoy to be in or they could make them feel the opposite.There are a lot of ways to make students eager to learn.First, the contents must be interesting and relevant to their age and level of ability. Second, the learning goals should be challenging, yet, manageable and clear. Last thing is that the atmosphere should be encouraging. Another research proved that there are more motivations, additionally to the things that the student's are doing. Successful argument encourages positive attitude. Another thing is that the more variety of the tasks and materials, the more helpful to increase the interest level. The final thing is having more cooperative goals than competitive goals. The cooperative goals are that students work in groups to increase self confidents, but competitive goals is, each having their own way to establish their work which won't help because team work always produces the best if it was done neatly. Conclusion: These are the best ways to let students learn a second language and to be successful in the thing they are doing in their life. I personally had a great experience watching the motivation and language learning. Motivation in language learning is not as

1 comment:

Rebecca said...

Hi Sultan,

Have you been getting ideas from Al? I know you're new to blogging so let me tell you - you don't need to post old assignments from class. The blog is more of a place for free-writing. It's also a place to share news - personal or from the newspaper, radio or internet. Go around to everyone's blog and leave some comments for them. I have everyone's links on my site if you need them.