Provides tools to enable teachers to improve their own motivation, and
thereby that of their students. A new approach to motivation, focusing
on the concept of 'vision'. Drawing on visualisation research in sports,
psychology and education, the authors describe powerful ways by which
imagining future scenarios can promote motivation to learn a language.
The book offers a rich selection of motivational strategies to help
students 'see' themselves as competent language users, to experience the
value of knowing a foreign language and, ultimately, to invest effort
into learning it. It also explores how to re-ignite language teacher
enthusiasm, how to re-kindle it when it may be waning and how to guard
it when it is under threat.