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TEACHER
STUDENTS
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ENHANCING MOTIVATION IN WRITING CLASSES
Linh, Tran Dang Khanh Nha Trang Teacher Training
College, Vietnam
8th ASIA TEFL Conference, Ha Noi, 5-8 August
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Identifying problems
• Researching related literature
• Implementation
• Generating motivation
• Maintaining motivation

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1. Identifying problems

• Why dont writing classes appeal to either
  teachers or students?
• How can a teacher make his writing classes appeal
  both to himself and his students ?

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Students problems

• Lack of interest
• Lack of ideas
• Lack of vocabulary
• Tiredness from long concentration
• Unawareness of teachers expectations

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Teachers Problems
Should I give more functional grammar? So many
wording mistakes!!
What can I do today to make the class more
interesting?
I have a bunch of paper-grading!!
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1. Related literature

teachers skills in motivating learners should
be seen as central to teaching
effectiveness. (Dornyei, 2001116)
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JEREMY HARMER Motivating the Unmotivated (4th
VTTN conference)

• Appropriate teacher behaviour and good
  teacher-student rapport

• A pleasant and supportive classroom atmosphere

• A cohesive learner group characterised by group
  norms

• Generating Student Motivation

• Increasing learners goal-orientedness

• Making the curriculum relevant for learners

• Maintaining and protecting motivation

• Increasing the learners self-confidence

• Creating learner autonomy

• Encouraging positive self-evaluation

• Increasing learner satisfaction and the question
  of rewards and grades

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Generating motivation

• Designing syllabi that meet Ss needs and match
  Ss competence.
• Syllabus content
• Materials
• Class activities

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Generating motivation

• Raising Ss awareness in
• The importance of writing skills
• Characteristics of written language
• Genres and the characteristics of each
• The differences between English and Vietnamese
  (native) writing styles
• Formal / informal English

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Generating motivation

• Making lesson titles relevant to Ss
• Ex - Paragraph writing ?
• - How to state a simple opinion ?
• - Narration ?
• - How to write a short story ?

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Maintaining motivation

• Giving various classroom activities
• Dramatising / visualising for concept
  understanding
• Group work
• Games

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Generating maintaining motivation

• Having writing process as the red thread
  permeating classes, with combination of group
  work and individual work
• Analysing question / need ? Brainstorming ideas
  ? organising ideas ? writing first draft ?
  Checking Editing ? writing final draft

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Generating maintaining motivation

• Helping Ss to design check-lists and use them to
  correct own peers papers teachers grading
  only after peer correction

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Generating maintaining motivation

• Encouraging S-S and S-T communication through
  e-mails, class journals, book reflection, etc.

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Results?

• 100 students in favor of the writing
  correction process.
• 3 class journals
• Why not more homework (8/83)?
• More time for writing classes (22 / 83)
• Why not games / writing contests between groups?
  (9/83)
• 10 / 83 prefer teachers correction to
  peer correction
• (Feedback from 83 Course Evaluation sheets
  /School year 08-09)

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Conclusion

• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher
  explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
  great teacher inspires. (William Arthur Ward)