This presentation is about how can the teacher motivate his/her students through blogging. It contains the definitions of motivation, the types of motivators and also some advise of what a teacher should do to motivate his/her students.

1. Empowering Students’
Motivation through Blogging
Ionesi Maria
EFL teacher TL “Gaudeamus”,
Dondusheni,

2. Expectations
What are expectations you have for
this seminar?

3. Objectives
 To identify the meaning of “Motivation”
 To identify type of motivators
 To understand what a teacher should do to
motivate his/her students.
 To concretize how the blog can empower
students’ learning.
 To present a real blog and students’ work
like a tool for empowering student’s
motivation.

4. We hear the word “MOTIVATION”
very often.
But what does it
mean?

5. Using this Word Cloud, define the
meaning of “Motivation”

6. Meaning of Motivation
Motivation is
derived from
Latin word
“movere” which
means “to move”
or “to energize”
or “to activate”

7. Some definitions of “Motivation”
 The act of process of stimulating to action, providing an incentive or
motive, especially for an act.
- Wikipedia
 Motivation can be defined as an internal condition initiated by drives,
needs, or desires and producing a goal behaviour. It is also the
willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals .
- Stephen P. Robbins
 Motivation means the classes of operations used to produce and
measure changes in performance and changes in energy output.
- Underwood
 Motivation refers to all the internal conditions that stir up activity and
sustain activity of an individual.
- Guilford

8. Types of Motivators
- autonomy
- belonging
- curiosity
- love
- learning
- mastery
- meaning
Intrinsic:
- badges
- competitions
- fear of failure
- fear of punishment
- gold stars
- money
- points
- rewards
Extrinsic:

9. What should a teacher do to
motivate his/her students?
M O T I V A T I O N

10. What should a teacher do to motivate
his/her students?

11. Teachers’Reaction at New Methods or Offers
“… but I’m
in the wrong
way to do it.”
“Ugh, I’m
being so
unproductive.
”
“Maybe I
should think
about
starting this
task…”
“I’ll do it
later!”

12. Motivation in the EFL Classroom
There are some ways or methods that can increase students’
motivation in the EFL classes. The most applicable are:
 Pair work or Group work
 The seating of the students
 The Error Correction
 Role Play
 Using realia, flash cards, Stories and songs in teaching
 Using audio visual material: cassette player, video, computer…
 Using the L1 in the EFL/ ESL classroom
 Using Blogs

13. How Can the Blog Empower Students’
Learning
 Interacting with other
learners
 Improved writing skills
 Learning and using new
vocabulary
 Practice in technology
 Thinking in English
 Grammar practice
 Typing practice

14. My blog: mariaionesi.weebly.com

15. A teacher can do
more than he
imagines, he can
change students’
life.