Authentic Materials and Student Motivation
Not a big enough problem to worry Auntie Alex with, so will deal with this reader enquiry myself:
Some good-looking internet resources on said topic, have no more than skimmed them myself but the sites they are on are well respected.
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Kilickaya-AutenticMaterial.html
http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/berardo/article.pdf
http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/2/144
The last one is the Amazon page of a classic book by a great author with a great name- Zoltan.
Tags: Motivation, Reviews
July 28th, 2007 at 10:24 am
I’ve read several books/articles by Dorynei and highly recommend his work.
July 28th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Me too- he’s not just a pretty name!
July 29th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
The person who made the original request has just sent me a very nice e-mail of thanks. If anyone else has any requests please leave a comment after any of the posts and I’ll see what I can do