Stimulating Student Interest in Language Learning Theory, Research a
This book explores the issues and concerns many language teachers have in not just helping able students to learn a foreign or second language but more importantly how to get reluctant learners to become interested in language learning. Tin proposes ‘inte
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Stimulating Student Interest in Language Learning
Tan Bee Tin
Stimulating Student Interest in Language Learning Theory, Research and Practice
Tan Bee Tin The University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-137-34041-2 ISBN 978-1-137-34042-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-34042-9
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Acknowledgements
My interest in interest (the main topic of this book) started a long way back through a somewhat surprising unpleasant experience—the somewhat negative course evaluation results I received from my students in a postgraduate language teaching paper I taught at the first year of my employment at the University of Auckland in 2004. Having previously taught mainly in my home-grown, culturally familiar contexts (Myanmar and then Thailand), my first year as a lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand was a kind of ‘eye opener’ and a ‘shocker’. A course which I thought was very interesting and which I thought I had ‘taught so well’ turned out to give me the lowest results in one particular item in the course evaluation form: ‘The lecturer/the course stimulated students’ interest in the course.’ To my surprise, several students didn’t think my course stimulated their interest. Prior to that experience, I must have thought, like many others, that ‘interest’ was either the responsibility of students (they were either interested or uninterested) or the inherent property of a particular learning object. That unpleasantly surprising experience caught my attention, triggering my interest in the
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