REFLEXIÓN FINAL...

My reflection concerns psychological aspects that are important to take into account, trying to learn a new language based on motivation cannot be effective in the long term because we are not always motivated or have this feeling of constant improvement, it is important to guide and teach our students to manage new situations when they have a mixture of feelings such as depression, anxiety, fear, and sadness.

Teaching them how to overcome these aspects can be very helpful. Therefore, one can develop a strong mentality, this psychological aspect, I can say that it is the most important to continue learning a language because it is a constant war against you, every day you have to learn something new, and it depends a lot on what kind of mentality you have. If you are in a bad mood while learning, you will never learn anything, that's why our main focus for working with students is this way of thinking about learning a new language.

The use of technology can help throughout this journey and also depends on how it is used and in what context you develop your classroom, it can affect our students for better or for worse. To ensure technology has a beneficial impact, teachers need to understand the nature of motivation, the factors that influence it, and the role technology can play in promoting motivation while recognizing its limitations.

Technology alone won't keep students engaged for long, but in combination with a good teacher, engaging activities, and well-designed materials, it can play an important role in keeping students engaged. Such technology can offer some benefits: it can improve short-term memorization of new vocabulary, for example, and even create short-term motivation through the use of leaderboards, stickers, or other forms of gamification.

In short, we can say that if we want to increase the motivation of our students, we must understand how our brain works, and how it retains and learns information through different methods and stimuli because human beings work in three different aspects, the first is social, the second biological and the third psychological, so we learn more about ourselves and it will be easier to learn everything we want at any time in our lives.

As can be seen, if students do not see the relevance of learning English, they risk losing their motivation. When activities relate to their lives and interests beyond the classroom, they are more likely to find personal meaning in their learning. And why can this happen? Well, because our current society needs to show that you are capable of doing something more and that can overwhelm everyone. Moreover, we have also learned to do everything quickly that we don't appreciate the process which teaches us many things such as what methods are our best options for learning, responsibility, discipline, tolerance, problem-solving, stress management, etc.

Promote good language learning habits, inspire students in their goal to learn a language and engagement actively engage them in a task, good learning habits ensure that their efforts are not hindered by factors such as anxiety or lack of enthusiasm. Fostering good learning habits is a good idea because learning something new every day is something you should do just to get to know yourself better and improve at the same time.

Additionally, talking about helping students connect what they do in the classroom to their lives, interests, and experiences beyond the classroom can be motivating and allow them to find personal meaning in their learning. Teachers have an important role to play in helping students make connections between the classroom and other learning spaces. They can do this by encouraging, preparing, supporting, and engaging students through the process of making these connections. This needs to be done with care and consistency so that learners develop the skills and confidence to use technology effectively in managing their learning.

Technology is a common tool that everybody can use nowadays but just a few know how to use it. This is one of the main problems that we can find when we talk about adding technology in our classrooms and we want to share information and teach with it. Including this tool in learning a new language can be difficult for many professors because we need to focus on different effective ways to develop our long-term course.

However, we have to talk about some good impacts on our students, for example:

• One of the potential benefits of using technology is its impact on student motivation and this can be defined as some options to perform and engage in an important action. However, we must keep in mind that technology can affect student motivation, but it depends on how we use it and guide it.

• Student motivation is strongly influenced by teachers' attitudes toward technology and their ability to use it to meet educational needs.

• Student engagement is more likely to continue when the use of technology is supported by the school, integrated into the curriculum, and carefully implemented in the classroom.

• Depending on the context, this will help the student stay motivated or bored.

• Is subject to external influences and can be affected by factors such as teacher encouragement, student training, and the development of successful learning habits.

And then there are some drawbacks:

• If the use of technology in the classroom does not lead to a long-term change in the learning process, tout the initial enthusiasm that the product will not go down well and will generally die out quickly.

• Students' apparent enthusiasm for technology is generally linked to its use for entertainment purposes, such as games or social networks, rather than for educational purposes.

• Although they are competent in the personal use of technology, they are also not able to use learning.

In conclusion, we need to explain many important points to our students and guide them through this current tool so they will be able to learn by themselves getting out of their comfort zone. Besides our main goal to develop this project is to change immediately our way of thinking or this is going to drag them to their old way of learning a language.

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