Motivation to Learn

Learning The English language has been a whole experience to me.I started since I was 15 and until now 15 years later I find myself struggling to find the right grammatical explanation for somebody else. Anyway learning English was very fun for me at the beginning because I was very motivated by myself and by my friends who where also attending the same language institute I was going to .My friends started the course first, so when they came to school speaking in another language it just sounded interesting and I wanted to do same.

My Mother who was the one who payed the language institute challenge to me and said:

“ I f you fail one month ,it is over” so then I felt that I had to do it .

Now that I am a teacher I realize how important is for an student is to be motivated, a student who really wants to learn is perseverant and continues his/her learning outside the classroom watching films in English, listening to music, reading books, etc.

So that is what I did. I finished the first year successfully didn't fail any month but still after that I couldn't communicate fluently I took some advanced courses of communication I guess what, I failed .

So Then I realize that it was just the beginning . I didn't give up and I finished all the program which consisted of teaching courses including linguistics and methodology.

And I couldn't believe how at the end of the 2 years program I was communicating with other new etachers.

I started teaching children and I just loved it.Didn't have to bother for advanced grammar explanations but I was a different challenge anyway .

Young children are wonderful processors of new information and in my experience can learn to read and write quickly, if ...