Class 09: L2 Motivational Self System Discussion for Your Paper

Summary: First, you completed the discussion questions related to your questions about your motivation to learn English to get ideas for writing your paper. See the question-items in the attachment in the file section of this class 09. Then, we looked at the structure of more paper to prepare for your report. 

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Homework due at 4 PM on Tuesday: 

1.Please take notes on Class 09 L2 motivational self system document in your Google Doc based on your answers to the “Motivational Self System Question Generator.” These reflective notes you can type in three sections of the language learning experiences, your ought-to self, and your ideal self that is useful for your L2 motivational self system report and final presentation. Please only choose three questions to answer for each of the three sections. Please try to type in double space if you can (nigyo retsu). 

Future notes about the report and not homework for today: One section of notes is for the readings that you want to put in your paper defining the L2 motivational self system with the authors’ last name and date. The second section is about your language learning experience, the third section is for writing about your ought-to self,  and the fourth page is for your future English ideal self. 

2. Your Free Rice Learning Program

Please make an account to our ESP1a English Motivation 2023 with our class code I provided in the Zoom chat if you have not already. Several students and myself are playing already. You can make an avatar name if you wish, but please let me know your game name. For your English motivation, you can choose any of the English categories and study as you like. Your goal is to get 2,000 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 chose the subjects you wish and feed children around the world in hunger for free sponsored by the United Nations and the World Food Programme.