35 Motivation Strategies

Here are the 35 motivation strategies mentioned in this study, taken from Dörnyei, Z. Motivational Strategies in the Classroom. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Dörnyei’s model specifies thefollowing basic elements of an interrelated progression of motivation over time. This checklist is reproduced here with the express permission of its author.

Creating the Basic Motivational Conditions1. Demonstrate and talk about your own enthusiasm for the course material and how it affects you personally.
2. Take the students learning very seriously.
3. Develop a personalrealationship with your students.
4. Develop a collaborative relationship with the students’parents.
5. Create a pleasant and supportive atmosphere in the classroom.
6. Promote the development ofgroup cohesiveness.
7. Formulate the norms explicitly, and have them discussed and accepted by the learners.
8. Have the group norms consistently observed.
Generating Initial Motivation

9.Promote the learners’ language related valuse by presenting peer role models.
10. Raise the learners’ intrinsic interest in the L2 learning process
11. Promote ‘integrative values by encouraginga positive and open-minded disposition towards the L2 and its speakers
12. Promote the students’ awareness of the instrumental values associated with the knowledge of an L2
13. Increase thestudents’ expectancy of success in particular tasks and learning in general.
14. Increase the students’ goal-orientedness by formulating explicit class goals accepted by them.
15. Make thecurriculum and the teaching materials relevant to the students.
16. Help to create realistic learner beliefs.
Maintaining and Protecting Motivation

17. Make learning more stimulating and enjoyable bybreaking the monotony of classroom events.
18. Make learning stimulating and enjoyable for the learners by increasing the attractiveness of the task.
19. Make learning stimulating and...