Summary: We discussed the L2 Motivational Self System theory and the reading from Session 1, and we had the Poster session below:

Homework due next Tuesday at 1 p.m. before Class 03:

Please take notes on Dr. Irie’s video interview by hand. Then, please take photos of your notes and insert them in your Google Doc for Class 02. Make sure to use the “cc” icon in the lower right corner of the video. Pause the video as needed to do the note-taking work for you. If you write some sentences word for word, use quotation marks and write the time spoken in the video like (Irie & O’Neil, 2015, 01:19).

Irie, K. & O’Neil, T. (2015).  Motivation in language learning with Professor Kay Irie, Gakushuin University, Tokyo [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iPqvC-q5fg&t=1s

2. Your Free Rice Learning Program

Please make an account for our ESP1a English Motivational SS with our class code if you have not already. Several students and I are playing already. You can create an avatar name, but please let me know your game name. You can choose any English category and study as you like for your English motivation. Your goal is to get 4,000 correct answers before the last class at your pace, but do practice sometime every week. This is 20% of the class grade, but you can choose the subjects you wish and feed children around the world who are hungry for free, sponsored by the United Nations and the World Food Programme: