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Motivation and Foreign Language Learning: From theory to practiceEdited by David Lasagabaster, Aintzane Doiz and Juan Manuel Sierra
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 40] 2014
► pp. 157–174
Visible learning and visible motivation
Exploring challenging goals and feedback in language education
Vera Busse | Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Germany
The chapter approaches motivation from a practitioners’ perspective and tries to illustrate how motivational theories can help language teachers working in higher education to gain deeper insights into students’ learning behavior. Particular attention is paid to the importance of setting challenging short-term goals and providing ample opportunities for practice and feedback, in combination with nourishing long-term language goals in students’ ideal self-beliefs. The chapter points towards the potential of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in this respect, cautioning, however, that feedback becomes even more important when such a challenging teaching approach is chosen. The chapter concludes by introducing a question cycle that encourages teachers to explore their students’ motivation and to identify possible motivational trouble zones.
Keywords: CLIL, feedback, goal-setting, motivation, task-challenge
Published online: 31 July 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.40.08bus
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.40.08bus
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