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Motivation - Making it Work 2

Dressing up/taking on roles is a great way to increase motivation   The concept of motivation and motivating your students is really TEFL 101, but we should nevertheless go over it briefly. It's really easy for everyone to nod their heads and say 'yes motivating students is important', but actually doing it and doing it consistently and effectively is a different matter. let's begin... There are Two main types of motivation and  an additional two that are specific for language learning. Motivation for Language Learning Instrumental/Integrative Instrumental meaning that the students are using the language to perform an outside task or duty. Perhaps they need to improve their language to complete a test for university or for their job or because they need have to travel somewhere. Integrative involves them learning the language because they have an affinity for the culture or people of that language and want to be more involved with it. What does this mea