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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okon, Katharina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Germany.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (66 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

3-95489-580-3

OCLC:

871779617