ESL Top 5 Learning Motivation Tips

Motivation is one important factor that goes around our life in everything and anything that we do almost every day. Well, ESL Learning is not an exception when we talk about motivation or stimulus factor. I have figured out some motivational acts that I can practice in my ESL classes in order to motivate ESL learners to learn and stay interested. Below are 5 of them.

1. Instead of stating the students are wrong for example in writing or sentences construction, tell them nicely on how they can change or repair the sentences appropriately without leaving the original meaning.

2. Praise the students once they have successfully completed a task. Give them the credits especially when they are trying their best in ESL activities for example in oral activities. Praising technique is the simplest way that an ESL teacher can do to boost students’ morale and it works all the time.

3. Check their works from time to time and give proper comments. Basically people will appreciate attention and so do ESL learners in our classes. This way can somehow motivate ESL learners to participate more seriously in the future and gain something useful for themselves.

4. Allow students to make comments or suggestions for a change. Take those comments or suggestions that are acceptable and brilliant. Please don’t straightly deny comments that you think as inappropriate, just tell the students that you’ll think of the comments and will get back to them later on. Make sure you as teacher has a written record. Once students believe that you as teachers can accept their way of thinking, it will somehow can motivate them to learn and continuously participate in your next class.

5. Last but not least ESL teachers can publish students’ work in their ‘ESL and More’ website and inform the students that their work are being published and can be read all over the world. Personally for me if my ESL teacher told me that my work is being published, I will feel very proud and this can encourage me to love the target language more than before.