Two presentations will be given, one focused on more practical issues of how students are demotivated in language classrooms and one focused on research on how demotivators can be measured and analyzed.
Demotivators in English Language Learning
How can teachers help students to be more motivated to learn a foreign language? This is a question that many foreign language teachers ask themselves. I identify common demotivators based on the findings of several qualitative and quantitative studies of demotivation.
Questionnaire Construction and Analysis with Rasch, Factor Analysis, and Structure Equation Modeling
I examine important steps in questionnaire development and the use of Rasch measurement analysis, and structural equation modeling for confirmatory factor analysis. Examples based questionnaires of demotivators will be discussed.
