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Motivated Learners' Traits

This document discusses motivation in language learners. It identifies characteristics of motivated learners as having a positive task orientation, ego-involvement, need for achievement, and high aspirations. Motivated learners are also goal-oriented and tolerant of ambiguity. The document further categorizes motivation as instrumental, integrative, extrinsic, intrinsic, global, situational, and task-based.

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Motivated Learners' Traits

This document discusses motivation in language learners. It identifies characteristics of motivated learners as having a positive task orientation, ego-involvement, need for achievement, and high aspirations. Motivated learners are also goal-oriented and tolerant of ambiguity. The document further categorizes motivation as instrumental, integrative, extrinsic, intrinsic, global, situational, and task-based.

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Learner Autonomy

MOTIVATION
Why motivation? Characteristics of
motivated learners

 Positive task orientation: the learner is willing to


tackle tasks and challenges, and has confidence
in his / her success.
 Ego- involvement: the learner finds it important
to succeed in learning in order to maintain and
promote his / her own positive self- image.
 Need for achievement: the learner has a need to
achieve, to overcome difficulties and succeed in
what he / she sets out to do.
 High aspirations: the leaner is ambitious, goes
for demanding challenges, high proficiency, top
grades
Characteristics of motivated
learners
 Goal orientation: the learner is very aware of
the goals of learning and directs his / her
efforts towards achieving them.
 Tolerance of ambiguity: the leaner is not
disturbed or frustrated by a temporarily lack
of understanding or confusion. He or she is
confident that understanding will come later.
Different kinds of motivation
 Instrumental motivation: the wish to learn the
language for purposes of study or career
promotion.
 Integrative motivation: the desire to identify with
and integrate into the target language culture
 Extrinsic motivation: motivation that is derived
from external incentives
 Intrinsic motivation: the urge to engage in the
learning activity for its own sake.
Different kinds of motivation
(Cont.)
 Global motivation: the overall orientation of
the learner towards the learning of L2
 Situational motivation: has to do with the
context of learning: classroom, total
environment
 Task motivation: the way the learner
approaches the specific task in hand.

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