Focus on Form and Motivation in the Advanced-Level Classroom
Explicit Focus on Form and Contact with the Outside World. A Model of Teaching Activity
Abstract
Research on motivation in recent years has focused more and more on teaching practice and techniques used during the language class. The work presents a didactic activity model that allows to positively affect on the motivation of advanced level learners, both as a factor of the underlying psychological motivation that can guide this type of learner, and as a motivational strategy, i.e. as a didactic technique that allows to stimulate and support motivation during various moments of the language class. In the model of didactic activity two aspects are combined: a) attention to the formal aspects of the language, in particular the set of didactic strategies indicated as a whole as focus on form; b) development of a learning path which ends with an experience of contact with native speakers in an authentic context.
Submitted: Jan. 28, 2023 | Accepted: March 13, 2025 | Published April 8, 2025 | Language: it
Keywords Motivation • Motivational strategies • Grammar • Advanced class • Focus on form • Italian L2
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