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Increasing Student Motivation with Tracy E. Rucker

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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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