Student`s Name:
Chun Bonnhara Teacher`s name: Sang Sambor
Seang Chomnan Group: E2b, Class: G-309
Seng lyhour
Ben Povleap
Topic
Chapter 2: why
do people learn languages?
- 1. Why do students learn languages? Give each reason briefly.
- 2. What is motivation? How many categories of motivation? Explain each one briefly.
- 3. How many different age groups in the motivational processes? Explain each one briefly.
Answer: 1) students learn language because –school curriculum: both they and their parents want to
have taught, -Advancement: some people want to
study English (or another foreign language) because they think it offers a
chance for advancement in their professional lives, -Target
language community: English-speaking country would be a TLC, -English for specific purposes: students who are going
to study at a university in the USA, Great Britain, Australia and Canada, on
the other hand, may need English so that they can write reports or essays and
functions in seminars, -culture: because they want to know about the people
who speak it, -Miscellaneous: for some students
learning a language because they think it was fun, want to be tourists in a
country, and all their friends are learning the language.
2) Motivation is some kind of
internal drive that encourages somebody to pursue a course of action. There are
two kind of motivation. Extrinsic Motivation: integrative motivation: students need to be
attracted by the culture of the target language community, and instrumental motivation: students believe that
mastery of the target language will be instrumental in getting them a better
job, position or status, Instrumental motivation:
Physical conditions: teachers should
presumably try to make their classrooms as pleasant as possible, Method: to motivate different students are more or less sympathetic to any particular method
depending upon their expectations, The teacher: two
teachers using the same method can have vastly different results, and success: Ultimately
the students` success or failure is in their own hands, but the teacher can
influence the course of events in the students` favor.
3) There are five different age
groups in the motivational processes: children need
frequent changes of activities: they need activities which are exciting and
stimulate their curiosity: they need to be involved in something active (they
will usually not sit and Listen!), adolescents:
the teacher should never, then, forget that adolescents need to be seen in a
good light by their peers and that with the changes taking places at age they
are easily prone to humiliation if the teacher is careless with criticism, adult beginners are in some way the easiest people to
teach! But it is will turn disastrous with negative teacher, adult intermediate students may well be motivated
extrinsically. They may well have very positive feelings, and adult advanced students: these students are often
highly motivated.
