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Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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- Showing Enthusiasm
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Motivating Learners Motivation is very important for students’ learning. Without motivation, students hardly enjoy their study. With motivation, students can easily find ways to train themselves and improve their skills. Showing enthusiasm, taking the students’ learning seriously, creating a pleasant and supportive atmosphere in the classroom, developing a good relationship with your learners, stress the benefits that knowledge of english can bring, making the curriculum and teaching materials relevant, using goal- setting methods in your classroom, adapting to diffirent situations, and acting like a teacher are among the ways suggested by LAPIS-ELTIS (2008e) that teachers can apply to motivate students. Showing Enthusiasm Show your enthusiasm by your actions and manner that you find English is interesting. You can show it by telling them some success stories about people who become more successful because of their mastery in English. You can also use your voice and body language to appear enthusiastic. Your cheerful facial expressions and energetic movement may make them become more enthusiastic. Besides, you need to show learners that English continues to enrich your own life. You may want to show them that you subscribe online English magazines. You can also share them the web address and let them read the appropriate levels of English there. Taking the Students’ Learning Seriously You can expect students to learn seriously if you also take their learning seriously. On the other way round, if you do not pay attention to their learning, you cannot expect them to do it seriously. That is why you need to show learners that you care about their progress. Praise them when they make a progress, “Great. Now you can make a good sentence.” Even when they make a mistake, you still need to find their strengths while showing them their error, “I know that you have tried hard. But, you cannot do it this way. You’d better try this. Do you want to try it now?” You should also have high expectations of what your learners can achieve. You have to be sure that they can do certain tasks, don’t undermine them. Show that you monitor their progress and pay attention to it. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 31 Download 1.05 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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