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Extrinsic motivation is a motivation to learn caused by external pressures such as work, because a parent has sent a learner to class, or the need to gain a qualification in the language.
World Teachers' Day is on October 5th. To celebrate the event, we've gathered a number of useful resources from across the site into one place. We also have several reflections on becoming and being a teacher by our bloggers.
This is the second of two articles that look at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating.
Find out what's happening across our TeachingEnglish channels in June 2023. We'll be focusing on the theme of 'Understanding learners', 'Inclusion' and 'Motivation'.