Reading
1a and 1b
If you want to read more about motivation and language learning, I recommend:
- chapter 6 of M Williams
and R Burden (1997) Psychology for Language Teachers, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1997, pp 111-42;
- the short, but useful,
account in P Lightbown and N Spada (1999) How Languages are Learned,
2nd edition, Oxford University Press,
Oxford, pp 56-58.
Reading
2
You can find our more about theories of second language learning in
- Lightbown, P and Spada,
N (1999) How Languages are Learned, 2nd edition, Oxford University
Press, Oxford, chapter 2, pp 31-48;
or, for an in-depth discussion, see
- Skehan, P (1998) A Cognitive
Approach to Language Learning, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
especially chapters 4, 5 and 6.
Reading
3
If you have a copy of Jane Willis's book A Framework for Task-based
Learning (1996) I recommend that you now read chapter 1, pages 3-21,
to revise and consolidate the material in this activity cycle.
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