Investigating the Intrinsic Motivation and Native Language Effect in Second Language Learning

• 作者: CHEN Yu LIU Fulan
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: INTRINSIC MOTIVATION NATIVE LANGUAGE EFFECT English teaching
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（5）
• 页码范围: 197-202
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: H

摘要

In Brown’s Principle of Language Learning and Teaching, we can learn a great deal about language acquisition principles. He put forward the most influenced 12 principles to refresh our teaching cognition. The authors chose two principles to further discuss and would give some pedagogical suggestions. Intrinsic motivation refers to behavior that is driven by internal rewards. In other words, the most powerful rewards are those that are intrinsically motivated within the learners. Because the behavior stems from needs, wants, or desires within oneself, the behavior itself is self-rewarding;therefore, no externally administered reward is necessary at all. Nowadays, the intrinsic motivation plays an irreplaceable role in students’ learning, and it can promote students’ learning ability. Another principle is the native language effect. When learning a foreign language, the native language always plays a role in it. Here, there are two aspects: positive and negative transfer. How to turn the students’ negative transfer into positive transfer and encourage students to continue keeping positive transfer will be an important task that teachers may meet in the classroom. This paper mainly discusses the functions of the intrinsic motivation and the native language effect principles in students’ learning and English teaching in second language. This study aims to encourage English teachers to adopt the two principles during teaching process and enable students to enjoy the process of learning English. In the end, the authors also give some pedagogical implications to second language teaching and expect to improve students’ confidence in second language learning.