Motivation Strategies For Learning English

Motivation strategies for learning English

The Research Project Motivation Strategies for English Language Learning had the general objective of the study to identify didactic strategies to favor English language learning processes.

The problem arose from the lack of interest in the English foreign language class by the students of the fourth A grade, of the Santa María Educational Institution in Montería Córdoba. This lack of interest did not allow learning objectives and the development of the different skills required by the English language.

As I would say (Gardner, 1985) the study of a foreign language requires, not only the study of certain grammatical rules but also the study of the social and cultural culture of the country where this language is spoken, in order to get a foreign language to become its own.

To recognize the different types of rounds and didactic songs that help motivate the student toField diary where through a checklist the effectiveness of each strategy was evaluated in the different aspects in which a class dynamic could be more effective in achieving learning and the different skills that a foreign language requires such asIn this case the English.

Testing different types of strategies that range from reading, writing, vocabulary exercises, to recreational activities that include music painting and imitation of gestures to understand concepts, in each of the activities its effectiveness will be verified taking into account the interestthat arouses in students, the number of students who participate voluntarily and the achievement of objectives and competencies achieved by students in each activity.

The observations showed different types of results according to each exercise placed in the classroom. Regarding the written exercises, students demonstrated little experience with ‘listening’ listening vocabulary and common use phrases such as greetings and farewells. Similarly in the writing exercises ‘Writing’ a tendency for students to know the phonetics of words plus no, their correct writing was observed. The playful exercises such as the didactic songs for English language learning a little more awakened by students’ interest in participating in class. Since we currently live in a world flooded with audiovisual content on social networks;Trends are something to consider when choosing content for the classroom. Student’s favorite songs are current songs that are a trend in networks and media and have a modern language that interests young students more.

Each dynamic applied separately in the activities that were tested for the observation of the students, yielded results of medium effectiveness in terms of the participation of the students and the achievement achieved of objectives and competences by these. The activities that threw the best learning effectiveness results were the activities that combined their contents in search of more dynamic methodologies than the traditional ones, thus creating a multimedia and interactive activity where many things happen in a single class dynamic. Where we can use different types of audiovisual content, audio contents, reading content, vocabulary with body mimicry, spelling dynamics, songs, through the active participation of students in different types of dynamics where the game is mixed andThe learning.

So as students are currently exposed to a world full of content that stimulate all their senses, which are striking, bizarre noisy colors full of colors, of various types of visual and auditory stimulation, it is increasingly difficult for the teachercatch their atention. Due to the results thrown by observation in our research exercise, we realized that the activities that the student have more motivation for learning English, are the activities that combine the use of ICT through audiovisual content designed to captureStudent’s attention. Activities with which they feel identified because they reflect their environment and their social reality, with the concepts that we want to teach embodied in situations with which they identify, which contain themes that are of interest.

For example a video where vocabulary is learned using some sport, or some rap or reggaeton song, where you can learn the different greetings and farewells used during the English language.

We are facing the era of technological information of the multimedia contents of online learning applications of the globalization of the Internet and immediate communication through devices with any person and place in the world. Education requires more and more teachers prepared and ready to face the different educational challenges that are presented to us today. Be up to date regarding the use of different technologies to enrich teaching work and provide students with a learning experience full of creativity, innovation and elements that test their abilities, stimulating their curiosity for learning, whereyour thirst for knowledge is insatiable.