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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