Motivation: the inside story

In this presentation, we will look at intrinsic motivation in the ELT classroom. I will suggest that for a lesson to generate intrinsic motivation, it should appeal not also to the student-as-learner but also the student-as-person. I will present a classification of types of material and activity which tend to have intrinsic appeal, and I will illustrate these with practical examples which you could try out in your own classrooms. See also the article on this topic.

(I have also presnted this workshop, or versions of it, at: TESOL Spain, IATEFL (Exeter), NYZSYE (Budapest), HUPE (Croatia), OUP events in Milan, Rome, Prague, Elche, Alicante, APABAL (Palma de Mallorca), Fischer (Bucharest), APAC (Barcelona), EOI Congress (Madrid), CEP Congress (Albacete) and OUP meet the authors (Badajoz)).