Empowering Students’

Motivation through Blogging

Ionesi Maria

EFL teacher TL “Gaudeamus”,

Dondusheni,

Expectations

What are expectations you have for this seminar?

Objectives To identify the meaning of “Motivation”

To identify type of motivators

To understand what a teacher should do to motivate his/her students.

To concretize how the blog can empower students’ learning.

To present a real blog and students’ work like a tool for empowering student’s motivation.

We hear the word “MOTIVATION”

very often.

But what does it

mean?

Using this Word Cloud, define the

meaning of “Motivation”

Meaning of Motivation

Motivation is

derived from

Latin word

“movere” which

means “to move”

or “to energize”

or “to activate”

Some definitions of “Motivation” The act of process of stimulating to action, providing an incentive or

motive, especially for an act.

- Wikipedia

Motivation can be defined as an internal condition initiated by drives,

needs, or desires and producing a goal behaviour. It is also the

willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals .

- Stephen P. Robbins

Motivation means the classes of operations used to produce and

measure changes in performance and changes in energy output.

- Underwood

Motivation refers to all the internal conditions that stir up activity and

sustain activity of an individual.

- Guilford

Types of Motivators - autonomy

- belonging

- curiosity

- love

- learning

- mastery

- meaning

Intrinsic:

- badges

- competitions

- fear of failure

- fear of punishment

- gold stars

- money

- points

- rewards

Extrinsic:

What should a teacher do to

motivate his/her students?

M O T I V A T I O N

What should a teacher do to motivate

his/her students?

Teachers’ Reaction at New Methods or Offers

“… but I’m

in the wrong

way to do it.”

“Ugh, I’m

being so

unproductive.

”

“Maybe I

should think

about

starting this

task…”

“I’ll do it

later!”

Motivation in the EFL Classroom

There are some ways or methods that can increase students’

motivation in the EFL classes. The most applicable are:

Pair work or Group work

The seating of the students

The Error Correction

Role Play

Using realia, flash cards, Stories and songs in teaching

Using audio visual material: cassette player, video, computer…

Using the L1 in the EFL/ ESL classroom

Using Blogs

How Can the Blog Empower Students’

Learning

Interacting with other

learners

Improved writing skills

Learning and using new

vocabulary

Practice in technology

Thinking in English

Grammar practice

Typing practice

My blog: mariaionesi.weebly.com

A teacher can do

more than he

imagines, he can

change students’

life.