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JW01
Actually doing the task and achieving the task is motivating for them,
even if they've got no long term motivation at all; and even if they have
no real kind of motivation, no instrumental motivation, or even integrative
motivation, actually achieving the goals of the task is satisfying. And
I think that's what I mean, by immediate motivation to finish the task
and to get it done in the time limit.
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JW02
I think we've used the term instruction to mean any kind of linguistic
help really. After the task cycle, there may be a period of fairly intensive
language focussed work, and that would count as instruction. During the
task if they get really stuck and they need a word and they say, 'Hey,
Miss,' you know, 'what's the word for ...', then that's a tiny bit of
instruction, so wherever there's a focus on language, and language help
or language ... looking at language per se, I think that's what we would
call instruction. And they may be doing a practice exercise, they may
actually be practising at that stage, and that would be instruction too;
and there may be a little bit of instruction right at the beginning, before
the task , where you might brainstorm words, and if they didn't know them,
you might explain them, and that would be a kind of lexical focus, but
I think that would still count as instruction, so I would say anything
to do with actual language help, language support. And I think the other
thing with instruction is it seems to be one way, doesn't it? The teacher
giving instruction. And I think it's just the term that's used in the
literature really, because a lot of the language support actually comes
from the learner, the request comes from the learner, and the teacher
just supplies. So it's more learner driven than perhaps the term 'instruction'
sounds.
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