The Motivation of senegalese students in learning spanish. La Motivación de los alumnos senegaleses en el aprendizaje del español. From attitudes to motivating strategies

Abstract

This article lays the emphasis on the problem of motivating Senegalese learners to learn Spanish as a foreign language. For more than 20 years and a half of teaching I have noticed the great difficulty that colleagues experience in motivating students in crowded classrooms. Thus, with this article I have reviewed the different definitions of motivation from various angles and in the face of the difficulty of motivating our learners who are learning Spanish in a non-immersion context, therefore I have addressed this article the strategy of teaching delighting that is without a doubt a solution to the problem of motivation

According to t this fact, the teacher's role is not only to provide or disseminate knowledge, but also to be, first of all, able to attract the attention of students and motivate them to take an interest in languages ​​and to learn them. But what can we teachers do to make the foreign language class relaxed and distracted without this harming the level of learning? That is, how can we motivate L2 students to learn another language, to open up to one another? new culture and can become bilingual or polyglot speakers?

These questions will lead me, in the first place, to study the impact of languages ​​in the world and, particularly, in Senegal. Secondly, I will talk about the different forms of adolescents' motivation when learning a foreign language. Finally, I will approach the strategy of “teaching by delighting, as Philippe Meirieu says in his work Learning Yes, but how? It seems essential to me to make a symbiosis between a good learning strategy and a high motivation of the learners, given that the conditions of Teaching-learning are generally the subject of feedback in the language classroom.