FUN AND ACHIEVEMENT IN YOUNG LEARNERS CLASSROOMS
-- FUN AND ACHIEVEMENT IN YOUNG
LEARNERS CLASSROOMS --
Cambridge
English webinar
Concord
Language School has regular monthly seminars. At the last one our teachers
watched a very interesting Cambridge webinar called Fun
and achievement in young learners classroom.
Aims of the
session were:
Ø to explore ideas of motivation
Ø to examine the testing of reading and
writing in Cambridge English: Young Learners
Ø to share practical ideas on how to
make preparation for Cambridge English: Young Learners tests fun and motivating
It was
agreed that the most interesting and demanding tasks of a teacher is how to
motivate their students. One of the
suggested definition of motivation is:
To motivate =
to stimulate the interest of someone;
to cause someone to want to do something
Popular
activities that can be used to enhance motivation are: games, songs, stories, movement, pictures, working together,
problem-solving, a positive classroom environment, praise, opportunities for
risk
However, no
matter how many interesting activities there are, there will always be some
that children do not enjoy. Some of them are:
working alone, doing grammar exercises, listening to others in the class,
reading aloud, doing tasks that are too easy, doing tasks that are too
difficult.
Finally ,
when we read John Atkinson’s theory of motivation: “All individuals can be characterised by two
learned drives, a motivate to approach success and a motivate to avoid
failure”, we have to ask ourselves which group do we belong to...
From: A Will
to Learn, Martin V.Covington, Cambridge University Press
Milica Filipović, English teacher
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