Criteria related assessment and reflection as a way to increase motivation for foreign language acquisition in school and university

The article is devoted to the consideration of technological aspects of increasing the motivation of students in mastering foreign languages at school and university. Motivation in the article is seen as an inner impulse, feeling or strong desire, pushing the individual to a special action. All people have needs or motivations that are to some extent innate, and their intensity is conditioned by the environment. At the heart of the concept of motivation there are six aspirations or human needs relevant to foreign-language education. Accounting for such affective factors allows us to consider the picture of the learning process more holistically. They play a significant role in teaching, manifesting themselves in the choice of materials and tasks that motivate students to work, in finding ways to deal with mistakes that would not create anxiety; in caring for the development of students self-esteem, self-confidence and high self-esteem in class; in the aspiration of the educator to create favorable conditions and thus facilitate the process of mastering a foreign language, in increasing their autonomy, in manifesting the insight into the theory of the styles of learning. Thus, the methodological basis for such an examination of a foreign-language educational process within the framework of this article is the affective approach that involves the design of appropriate teaching technologies. The starting point of the authors' reasoning is the analysis of the concept and structure of educational technology, which was carried out in the logic of the system approach to research. As a result of this analysis, it became possible to represent the vertical and horizontal structure of educational technology. As specific ways of solving the problem of increasing motivation within the framework of this article, criteria related assessment and reflection of educational activity were chosen.

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