Increasing Student Motivation with Tracy E. Rucker

In this episode we are talking all about student motivation in the language classroom.  Where does it come from?  How can we motivate students?  [sign up for Talking Points]

I'm joined by Tracy E. Rucker, a widely respected and insightful French teacher, who walks us through his personal experience with student motivation and offers some actionable advice for all language teachers.

Tracy talks about:

• what we need to understand about motivation
• how we know when a student is motivated to complete a task, and not just complying
• actionable ways that teachers can motivate students
• obstacles to motivating students that teachers can plan for proactively

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