Motivation is a standout amongst the most vital components of language acquisition, particularly in L2 learning. Goal-oriented acquisition used to dominate the debates about the motivation theory of L2 in terms of social psychology. Language learners would be classified as either integratively-or instrumentally-oriented (Gardner & Lambert, 1972) to achieve a needed proficiency in L2 use for identification with a specific ethnolinguistic group or for pragmatic gains. For the last ten years, when clarifying the inward identification course in self-concept of learners to invigorate inspiration for L2 capability, this theoretical center has moved to a novel domain of self and identity. Internal yearnings to some sort of linguistic, cultural, individual, …show more content…
Their personalized scheme gives them an individually significant basic principle for learning English. Such perfect L2 identity might well motivate learners to work hard to learn in order to get L2 competence and fulfill individual identity pursuits in the future. Conversely, in face of the question of the college entrance examinations, 18 participants were afraid to get poor scores on the off chance that they couldn't learn English well. The discovery and its meanings can be identified with ought-to self of …show more content…
To investigate the partial divergence, there is a need to consider the local social context, and explore the role of examinations in Taiwan, since exams play an important part in how students perceive their possible L2-related selves. Chen et al. (2005) claims that this distinctive learning orientation has been internalized into Chinese learners and is a characteristic of motivated Taiwanese EFL learners. This localized perspective can shed some light on analyzing the Taiwanese ought-to L2 self with a double layered instrumentality in learning English, and in understanding the Taiwanese discrepancy to the theoretical definition of the ought-to L2 self-associated with the prevention-driven and non-internalized extrinsic motives that make up instrumentality. Taking into account the social context, it is not possible for researchers to fully refute the possibility of students internalizing exam requirements in Taiwan. The interview findings reveal the impact of the broader context on one’s L2 motivation and the role of contextual / cultural factors in shaping one’s possible L2-related
Motivation 3.0 depends on fosters type I behavior. For example, Type I behavior leads to stronger performance greater health and higher overall well-being. The good news about type I is that types I are made not born according to Pink. “Type I behavior is fueled more by intrinsic desires than extrinsic ones” said Pink. I agree with pink because it’s fueled more by intrinsic desire because you want to do it than extrinsic ones.
My motivation in life thrives when I face challenges. My biggest challenge was moving away from my family and developing my network on my own. Growing up as a member of a Korean family, our greatest values are gathering and having quality time. Thus, it was hard to accept that I am no longer involved in family times due to the long distance. However, as I had more time for myself, I could look back at myself and explore my interest.
The problem of personal identity lives with us everyday but we seldom gave it much importance. It deals with philosophical questions regarding our existence and our ‘self’ such as “Who am I?” or “Where do I come from?” Normally, one would rarely pause during the day to contemplate on the meaning of these questions and try to answer them. Unlike us, philosophers consider that such questions are crucial to our existence and strive to answer them in order to give a true meaning to our lives.
In chapter 5, “The Problem of Personal Identity” from Problems of Philosophy, authors James and Stuart Rachels discuss the everlasting wonders of what makes you, you. Rachels speaks about the question, of who we are and how we define our identity. The chapter discusses theories that philosophers have come up with to help us get a better understanding of what defines us and gives us an identity. The authors described the theories like The Bundle-Theory, The Same-Body Theory, and The Memory Theory and examined the argument and counter argument.
Quest to Find One’s Self As one ages, one looks to discover who he will become, and how he will fit in the world. However, one must face many obstacles in his quest to find his identity so that he may satisfy the natural human urge to have a purpose. Without an identity, one would not be able to fulfill their purpose, and would instead live aimlessly. Therefore, people aspire to have a strong minded identity, and they look to others in their aspirations.
Our identity is what we think of ourselves to be combined with how we choose to express it and further coupled with what others think is the best way of expressing ourselves. It is a thread of overlapping psychological states while being located in different locations. Creation of the self is always an active ongoing process where in, the answer to the question “Who am I?” is given by the story we tell about ourselves which highlights the interaction of the interior development of an individual’s personality and participation in society by internalising the cultural norms, acquiring different statuses and playing various roles in a particular context. It is a combination of our values, beliefs and our personality.
The defining of ones identity has been undoubtedly a very tricky issue for philosophers, psychologists or sociologists throughout the human history. There has been many attempts to describe personal identity and what has the major influence on creating it. The social backround in which a person grows up and education provided by the family as well as by the school has undeniably a crucial role in forming one 's identity.
Self-identity through self-acceptance
The question of self identity has been a matter of ancient philosophical quest. In the ancient Greek and Indian civilization people paid great attention towards finding the self identity. Once the great Greek philosopher Socrates was moving on the street absorbed in deep philosophical contemplation when he accidentally bumped into someone. The man annoyed said “can’t you see where you walk? Who are you?”
The most significant among them is George Herbert Mead. According to him ‘the self’ is made out of a number of identities and the self is constructed through social interactions through the means of language, play and games. He introduces the concept of ‘ME’ and ‘I’ where ‘me’ is the social aspect of the individual and represents learned behaviour, attitudes and expectations of the society whereas the ‘I’ is the individual identity in response to the ‘me’. Sheldon Stryker provides the theory of ‘salience hierarchy’ where the identities at the top are more likely to be evoked than those low in the order. He believes that identity is a link between the individual and social structure as identities are designations that people make about themselves in relation to their social structure and the specific roles in relation to their locations.
Identity is social construct that many have mistaken for something an individual is born with. There are many aspects of identity that one can inherit like genes that can drive a certain type of character and certain aspects of identity a person can adopt and build for themselves. However the most part of one’s identity is consistent of what the person wants and adopts for themselves and what the society/the people around him/her choose to give him/her. Identity is a said to not remain unchanged once established.
introduction Motivation has been defined as some driving force within an individual by which they attempts to achieve some goal in order to fulfill some needs or expectations (Mullins, 1996). Beside Mullins, some scholar also define motivation as the psychological process that gives behavior purpose and direction (Kreitner, 1995) ; A predisposition to behave in a purposive manner to achieve specific unmet needs (Buford, Bedeian, and Linder, 1995); An internal drive to satisfy an unsatisfied need (Higgins, 1994); and the will to achieve (Bedeian, 1993); All those inner-striving conditions described as wishes, desires, drives, etc. (Donnelly, Gibson, and Ivancevich 1995); and the way urges, aspirations, drives and needs of human beings direct
The development of literacy and language is a continual progress within a person. This development is one that starts from the moment a child is born (Hurst and Joseph, 2000). This development is promoted within the home environment and is extended within the early years’ classroom domain. Literacy and language development is comprised of four strands, which are listening, speaking, reading & writing. These four factors are in constant interaction together and are constantly developing within the person (Saffran, Senghas and Trueswell, 2001).
In the English learning literature, the development of a positive attitude towards learning could be attributed to Integrativeness, or the genuine desire to learn a new language so that one can communicate with the members of the community who use the language as their medium of communication (Dörnyei, 1998). However, as the world has become more borderless as exemplified by the EU and the ASEAN, other attitudinal factors were conceptually included. The additions were attributed to the changing of concept from ‘English is a second language to learn’ to ‘English as an international language’(Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2009). This resulted to the addition of other attitudinal factors that include Direct contact with English speakers (attitude towards actually meeting English speakers and travelling to their countries) ; Cultural interest (appreciation of cultural products from English speaking countries conveyed by the media); Miliu (the general perception of the importance of English in the learners’ friends and family) (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2009). From the aforementioned attitudinal factors, the following hypotheses were
CHAPTER 2 : IDENTITY Identity is a topic that is significant to everyone. Identity relates to the time less question who am I and the related inquiry who and what do I appear to be; to myself, to my companions, and to others etc. A person can be appear to be many things at once where these different identities appear inconsistent. Identity basically reflects the individual characteristics which may include the idea about what kind of personality we have, as well as to social categories. In this manner, identity in its available incarnation has a twofold sense.