Read the text about Intrinsic Motivation and answer question
The most powerful rewards are those that are intrinsically motivated within the learner. Because
the behavior stems from needs, wants, or desires within oneself, the behavior itself is selfrewarding;
therefore, no externally administered reward is necessary.
If all learners were intrinsically motivated to perform all classroom tasks, we might not even need
teachers! But you can perform a great service to learners and to the overall learning process by
first considering carefully the intrinsic motives of your students and then by designing classroom
tasks that feed into those intrinsic drives. Classroom techniques have a much greater chance for
success if they are self-rewarding in the perception of the learner. The learners perform the
task because it is fun, interesting, useful, or challenging, and not because they anticipate some
cognitive or affective rewards from the teacher.
From: BROWN, H. Douglas. Teaching by principles. An interactive approach to Language Pedagogy. Second Edition. San
Francisco: Longman, 2001.
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