Goals

• To discuss and review the third week of the Futurelearn course, which this week focused on technology in language education: What points of similarity were there with our course? Were there any new topics covered?
• To complete our look at some major theories in motivation in learning.
• Assessing online tools – creating a list of criteria

Outside Class Work

Complete the Futurelearn course and write a reflection blog post on your experience: focus on how useful you found the course, weaknesses and ways it could be improved, what you found most interesting and so on.

Reading

• Gardiner’s integrative model of motivation
• Kimberly Noel on Self-determination Theory
• Dörnyei’s L2 self Motivation Theory