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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807152103321

Autore

Okon Katharina

Titolo

Teaching english effectively : with special focus on learners' interests / / Katharina Okon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-95489-580-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (66 p.)

Disciplina

428.007

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Germany

English language - Study and teaching (Secondary)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Teaching English effectively; Table of contents; Introduction - What is the thesis about?; 1. Motivation and Interest defined; 1.1 Motivation; 1.2 Motivation to learn; 1.3 Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation; 1.4 Interest; 2. The importance of interest for language learning in the classroom; 3. Creating motivational conditions in the classroom; 3.1 Focus on the teacher; 3.2 Focus on the learner; 3.3 Atmosphere in the classroom; 3.4 Focus on the lesson; 4. How to increase motivation by including the learners' interests- a research; 4.1 Aims of the research; 4.2 The questionnaire

4.3 Results of the questionnaire4.4 Evaluation of the results; 5. The consideration of learners' interests - with a view to the English Lower Saxony Core Curriculum; 6. Conclusion; References; Appendices

Sommario/riassunto

There are several ways of enhancing students' motivation in the EFL classroom but an important one is to create the lesson on the basis of the learners' interests. Everyone who looks back on former school days, might remember that learning was more enjoyable when the topics were interesting and furthermore, when they were handled in an exiting way. The intention of this study is to present several ideas of improving the general motivation in the classroom. In addition to that, the current interests of students from German secondary schools and the consideration of the interests in the comm