The cognative principles discussed in HDB are all segnificant to know. The one which attracted my attention was meaningful learning. From this princeple I learned the fact that meaningful learning is very important and it can happen only if the teachers teaches learners taking their age, background, level of 2nd language professioncy, motivation, interests, and needs. this is because if the teacher do not know his learners well, I think it is less likely for him or her to make the learning happen meaningfully. Besides, the teacher should definitely use various approaches and different tasks to make the learning meaningful. at this point I think students also play an important role in making the new lessons meaningful to themselves and they should be taught how this can happen.
Having read about the interinsic motivation, I relized the there are two types of motivations: intinsic and extrinsic motivations. However, when we talk about it from the scop of ESL classes, it seems that it is very complex. A teacher should find out the ways to motivate students to learn, but how can he do that seems very hard. It is important to find out who is motivated and who is not because the teacher should not choose one way to motivate students. Rather, he/she should find out to relate the lesson or the subject to what each student is interested in, and beside whole class motivation, he/she should give students personal motivation to students.
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Very good point. The teachers need to be able to connect to students in order to create meaningful learning. Also true that this can be a way to motivate them, by creating an interesting learning environment.
Meaning and motivation both are important parts of teaching,
Doing class activities to get to know the students and help the students get to know each other is important.
The students, as well as the teacher can provide re-enforcement and encouragement for each other.
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