Motivation is the extent to which you make choices about (a) goals to pursue and (b) the effort you will devote to that pursuit.
As a whole class, students were supposed to brainstorm for a minute and discuss some of the most techniques used in language classrooms that we have observed recently and say whether a technique is intrinsically motivating.
Blogs – teachers ask students to keep a journal on the web so that they can relate their daily routine, practicing their writing skills.
Role plays – teachers create a scenery where students can pretend they are in a place where the target language is spoken.
It can be a restaurant, pub, students can talk only in English. This exercise is indicated for advanced ones.
Games – Cards, guessing game, etc.indicated for kids, teens. Adults are not into this kind of exercise.
Music – songs with lyrics, blanket spaces for students to listen to and complete. Every student enjoys it.
Movies – as every student wants to sound as a native-like, they enjoy this exercise. Students watch the movie with or without the subtitles paying close attention to the way the words are pronounced.
Teaching Grammar – Some teachers believe that grammar is so important that they focus only on it. It is sometimes boring but some students think that learning grammar is the effective way in learning English.
Drills – Teachers use this technique and it can be effective for beginners, but on the other hand, advanced ones hate it, it is regarded as much repetition, they feel like a parrot or a kind of answering machine.
Pair groups – I have seen many classes like that, students work together doing the exercises. It can be a informal conversation, dialogues, etc, using the grammar and vocabulary they have just learned.
It is important for teachers ask themselves whether something they are doing in the classroom, the exercises they are preparing, are contributing to their students’ intrinsic drives.
Teachers must be aware of the purpose of the techniques, if they are relevant for students; if they contribute to students autonomy or even if the technique encourages students in some way to develop effective strategies of learning and so on.
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