Positive, motivated students -- engaged with their subject and each
other -- learn more. How do we facilitate that? Attitude. The new field of
“positive psychology” offers ideas. Traditional psychology focuses on
mental illness. Positive psychology focuses on mental health: What do happy,
mentally healthy people do? TIME magazine calls it “the science of
happiness.” Language learning is informed by educational psychology. This
session will experiment with tasks combining positive psychology with
language learning goals.
Bio Data:
Marc Helgesen is author of more than 100 professional articles, books and
textbooks including the popular English Firsthand series and has led teacher
development workshop on 5 continents. He is a professor at Miyagi Gakuin
Women's University, Sendai and adjunct at Teachers College Columbia
University, MA Program, Tokyo
