PROFILE 7, NO.1. Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development

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A Framework to Understanding Motivation in the TESOL Field

Un marco para la comprensión de la motivación en el campo de la enseñanza del inglés a hablantes de otras lenguas

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Teaching English to speakers of other languages, English as a foreign language, motivation (en)
Enseñanza del inglés a hablantes de otras lenguas, enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera, motivación (es)

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TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is a field that receives the contribution of various disciplines to support its theoretical and practical foundations. In this paper, the author presents an overview of the approaches used to conceptualize motivation in psychology and apply it to TESOL. Then, a selected number of factors or dimensions of the achievement motivation construct, identified in the research about motivation in cognitive psychology, are highlighted. Based on the previous dimensions, some practical and research implications are suggested to be applied in the area of motivation to learn a second (SL) or foreign language (FL). Finally, the author supports the need to conceptualize motivation, not only from a cognitive view, but most importantly, from a socio-constructive approach, especially in the TEFL context.

En este artículo, se presentan los enfoques que se han utilizado para definir la motivación en psicología y que se han aplicado al campo de TESOL. A continuación, se destaca un número selecto de factores o dimensiones del constructo de motivación de logro identificado en la investigación sobre motivación realizada en psicología cognitiva. Con base en estas dimensiones, se sugieren algunas implicaciones prácticas e investigativas que se podrían aplicar en el área de la motivación para el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua o de una lengua extranjera. El autor, finalmente, sustenta la necesidad de que la motivación se conceptualice fundamentalmente con base en una perspectiva socio-constructivista y no únicamente desde la visión cognitiva, especialmente en el contexto de la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera (TEFL).

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