Pedagogy and Motivation: Enhancing Language Learning for Boys

This essay delves into the critical intersection of pedagogy and motivation within the realm of education, specifically addressing the challenges and opportunities in teaching modern foreign languages to boys. The paper begins by outlining the aims of the assignment, emphasizing the importance of motivation in language acquisition and the role of teacher personality and experience. It then explores the core values underpinning effective pedagogy, linking these values to relevant literature and scholarly perspectives. The essay highlights the significance of action research as a method for empirical investigation and continuous improvement in educational practices. A model for this research is presented, detailing a step-by-step process for inquiry. The rationale behind the socio-cultural pedagogy is discussed, followed by an extensive literature review supporting the arguments. The paper concludes by underscoring the need for pedagogy to enhance the learning experience of students.

Running head: PEDAGOGY AND MOTIVATION
Pedagogy and motivation
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Aims of the assignment...............................................................................................................2
Aim of enquiry.............................................................................................................................3
Personality of the teacher and experience till date..........................................................................3
Values informing the pedagogy.......................................................................................................4
Linking the values with literature review........................................................................................5
Action research................................................................................................................................6
Promise of action research...........................................................................................................6
Linking of action research with research informed practice.......................................................6
The enquiry......................................................................................................................................7
Model adopted in this enquiry.....................................................................................................7
Step by step process under taken in the enquiry..........................................................................8
Rationale behind the socio-cultural pedagogy.................................................................................8
Literature review..............................................................................................................................9
Evaluation......................................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References:....................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The field of education has emerged to occupy a significant position within the lives of the
people in the contemporary society. With the advent of globalization, the territorial borders of
the society have been eroded in a metaphorical sense. This has led to the people to migrate from
one place to the other for various reasons. One of the most important reason for migration is that
of earning a decent standard of living. Within the frame work of the contemporary society, the
field of education has taken a primary role since it has a direct correlation with the issue of
standard of living (Hazari, North and Moreland 2019). In other words, the more information and
education an individual accumulates, the more he or she is able to utilize such information in
their daily lives. In this context, it can be seen that with the onset of migration, the individuals of
the society are required to speak and communicate in the language of the host countries. As a
result of this, there is a need on the part of the education institutions of the world to impart
knowledge on modern foreign languages to their students on the basis of the fact that it might
prove to be useful to them in the event of migration (McLaren 2016). The purpose of this paper
is to discuss about the importance of the impartation of modern foreign language to the boys
enrolled in educational institutions. The aims of the enquiry have been stated in the paper and
this has been related to the values involved in the idea of pedagogy. The paper also mentions
about the importance of action research which is significant for empirical research. The paper
concludes with the importance of the need of pedagogy for the educational institutions.
Aims of the assignment
The main objective of this paper is to understand the importance of motivation required
for the boys to learn a modern foreign language. In this context, the aims of this assignment can
be stated as follows –

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 To understand the rationale behind the need of motivation to learn a modern foreign
language for the boys.
 To examine the various personality of the teachers and their experiences needed to impart
effective education in this field.
 To describe the values related with pedagogy
 To understand the issue of action research and the rationale begin its execution in the
field of education.
Aim of enquiry
The aim of this enquiry is to understand the need for motivation to impart education to
the children enrolled within any educational institutions. The field of studies require patience and
concentration. As a result of this, the students need to be kept motivated and encouraged as they
are bound to lose their concentration during their period of study.
The purpose of this paper is to look in to the need for motivation for the boys of the
society to impart modern foreign language education to them. This sphere has assumed
importance as a result of the growing aspect of migration in the society. Furthermore, this is
more significant for the male members of the society since they are the ones who are more likely
to travel across continents in search of a better standard of living. In this context, the enquiry has
sought to understand the issue of motivation related to the dissemination of modern foreign
language (Johnson and Golombek 2018).
Personality of the teacher and experience till date
The personality of the teacher and the experience acquired by him or her till date plays a
significant role in their method of imparting education to the students. A teacher needs to be able

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to develop closer relations with the students (Johnson et al. 2016). Furthermore, they are
required to be kind and patient so as to ensure that the subject matter which has been taught to
the students has been effectively ingrained in them. The main objective of a teacher is to bring
about a transformational change within the personality of the students so that they are able to
become model citizens of the community.
In this context, the experience of a teacher in the field of foreign languages would aid
them to teach their concerned students in an effective manner (Bajaj 2015). A foreign language
includes within itself the aspects of learning new vocabulary, new grammatical instructions and
new way of sentence construction. This proves to be difficult for the students to understand as
they have a tendency of thinking in their native tongues. An experienced teacher provides the
benefit of giving the students the encouragement and an efficient strategy which would enable to
students to think and talk in the foreign language being taught to them (Halman, Baker and Ng
2017).
Values informing the pedagogy
Pedagogy is defined to be the method of teaching. In other words, the mannerism and the
methods with the aid of which the teachers of a community are able to impart education to the
students is referred to as pedagogy.
There are certain values which are included within the field of pedagogy. The main
purpose of the pedagogical values is to broaden the perspectives of the students and to lead to the
deepening of the comprehensive power of the students (Boon and Lewthwaite 2015). The
accumulation of knowledge is meant to increase the ability of critical thinking of the individuals.

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The students have the opportunity to reflect of the writings of the scholars of their field, make a
critical note on the thoughts shared by such scholars and formulate their own opinions.
The pedagogical values prove to be essential in the context of the modern foreign
language training. The etching of a foreign language can be incredible difficult for a teacher. The
values of pedagogy would lead to the improvement of the quality of the work of the students and
motivate the concerned boys to reflect on the process of education.
Linking the values with literature review
The importance of the pedagogical values can be traced to certain scholarly writings.
According to Patton (2017), the main purpose of any pedagogy is to incite the students to think
and broaden their perspectives with regard to the values and customs in the society. Each society
has their own traditions which are continued as a result of the activities of its people. Such values
are bound to be changed with the changes in society. For instance, one of the values of the
present globalized world is that of multiculturalism. As stated by Runesson (2015), the value of
multiculturalism needs to be properly imbibed within the minds of the individuals so that they
are able to exhibit the characteristic features of harmony and tolerance.
Another important value of pedagogy which is found in the field of education has been
opined by Kenny, Finneran and Mitchell (2015). He stated that the most significant value of
pedagogy is to bring about a change in the individuals in such a manner that they are able to
understand their own self and their potential. According to Soloway (2016), the aspect of
motivation plays a significant role in generating the attribute of self-determination among the
college students. In this respect, the role of the teachers assumes a significance as they have the
important responsibility of keeping the students motivated to study. In the event that such a

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factor of motivation is found to be imbibed within the very nature of pedagogy and the method
of teaching, the obligation of the teachers can be executed in an efficient manner.
Action research
Within the field of research, there are certain research strategies which are used in order
to collect information. These include the interview method, action research method, case study
method and that of survey method among a host of others. Action research refers to the study
which is carried out by the researcher within a course of occupation or activity (Tan and Koh
2017). Such action researches are mainly observed to be occurring in the field of education
where the work of the people involved are detected and evaluated. To this extent, the main
purpose of action research is to carry out empirical data collection method so that updated and
current information can be collected for the purpose of research and to find measures enhance
the lives of the working professionals.
Promise of action research
One of the benefits associated with action research is that of the collection of updated
data from the concerned sources. This leads to the provision of authenticity and reliability of the
research work which is being done. The main promise of an action research is that it determines
the mannerism in which the lives of the students can be enhanced. This, in turn, leads to the
benefit of enhancing the lives and living status of the working professionals who are engaged
within the educational systems (Giroux 2018).
Linking of action research with research informed practice
Research informed practice refers to the information which is included in the process of
study aimed to understand the factors which aids or obstructs the participants involved. The

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accumulated knowledge is used by the researcher within the practice, thereby supporting the
sphere of decision making (Fowler 2015). In other words, the field of research informed practice
is found to be related to the research strategy of action research as action research involves the
collection of empirical data. The research informed practice can be executed by this research
strategy as it aids in the collection of necessary data to bring about a change in the concerned
field.
The enquiry
The purpose of this paper is to look in to the need for motivation for the boys of the
society to impart modern foreign language education to them. The field of studies require
patience and concentration. As a result of this, the students need to be kept motivated and
encouraged as they are bound to lose their concentration during their period of study. In this
context, the enquiry has sought to understand the issue of motivation related to the dissemination
of modern foreign language.
Model adopted in this enquiry
The enquiry which is sought to be explained in this paper is that of understanding the
need for motivation for teaching modern foreign language to the male members of the society.
The research strategy of action research is proposed to be followed in order to examine the stated
enquiry in a comprehensive manner.
One of the models which can be adopted in the effective execution of this enquiry is that
of Kemmis and Mctaggart action research model (Koh et al. 2016). This model attempts to show
the reflection of the research which leads to the next or another stage of the panning process. In
this context, it needs to be noted that the planning stage is not found to be separate from the

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previous stage of formulation but is rather embedded in the process of action and reflection
stages. The short cycles which exists in the Kemmis and Mctaggart action research model are
meant to show case the issue of rigor found in the research process.
Step by step process under taken in the enquiry
There are certain steps which are included in the process of Kemmis and Mctaggart
action research model. The steps include a reflection of the self. This includes the stages of
planning, action, the process of observation, reflection and that of re-planning (Kemmis,
McTaggart and Nixon 2015). These steps are found to be based on the need to improve the
situation which is under observation. There is therefore, the movement of information from one
critical stage to that of the other with the intention of improving the situation (Giroux 2019). The
main advantage of the Kemmis and Mctaggart action research model is that it aims to improve
the situation with the aid of a systematic process.
Within the field of education, the use of Kemmis and Mctaggart action research model
assumes more importance. This is due to the fact that it provides the researcher with the
advantage to analyze the dissemination of information within the educational institutions. If the
researcher finds that the measures need to be redefined and the methods should be made more
effective, then they can undertake the process of reflection and that of evaluation. This would
help the teachers and the students both, to make the process of education more effective by
imbibing the recommendations made to this regard.
Rationale behind the socio-cultural pedagogy
The importance of a pedagogy lies in the fact that it is able to understand the way in
which education is imparted to the students. Since historical times, information and knowledge

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has been disseminated to the younger generation by certain stalwarts of the elderly generation
(Giroux and Robbins 2015). However, this system of education underwent a significant change
with the onset of globalization and that of liberalism. One of the main defining features of
globalization was that of the metaphorical erosion of the boundaries of the nation states, giving
the needed freedom to the people of the world to migrate from one place to another.
As a result of the increase in the interaction of the people, a need as felt to reformulate
the pedagogies of the countries so as to make them compatible with the international standards
(Black and Wiliam 2018). However, care needs to be taken so as to ensure that the cultural and
the traditional values of the students are not eroded as a result of the rise in the multicultural
aspect of the people. In this regard, it can be noted that the pedagogy of the various educational
institutions have been changed in order to include the social and the cultural aspects of the
countries.
The need for the generation of the socio-cultural pedagogy is that the students would be
encouraged and motivated to study when they read and learn about their own cultural back
ground or about the back ground of different ethnicities.
Literature review
With the rise in migration and the freedom of the people to move from one part of the
world to the world, the issue of an integrated form of education has also risen. According to (), a
need is felt on the part of the teachers of the educational institutions to reformulate the existing
pedagogies so as to include within them the values of pedagogies and the cultures of the society.
According to Nguyen and Larson (2015), the issue of critical pedagogy assumes
considerable significance. The scholar is of the opinion that when the students are imparted

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important knowledge by their teachers, it should be inculcated by them in an effective manner.
This effectiveness depends on the ability of the student to critically analyze them and form their
own opinions. Thus, the most important form of intervention which needs to be imparted in the
field of education is that of critical analysis (Morrell 2015),
In the context of providing motivation to the male members of an educational institutions
in order to teach them a modern foreign langue. It is essential to make them aware of the
significance of critical reading (Thornberg 2016). Foreign language is difficult to study mainly
because of the differences in the formation of sentences and grammar that exists between that
language and the native language of the concerned individual. In this context, in the event that
the students of any educational institutions is taught about a modern foreign language, it is
essential that they should be taught about the important of critical analysis. This would provide
them with the enthusiasm to formulate their own opinions and make an analysis of the words and
sentences which are presented in front of them (Carrington et al. 2015). This, in turn, would help
them to understand and retain the information faster which is being imparted to them.
Another intervention was propounded was by Comber (2015) who believed in the
importance of values of pedagogy. He stated that the purpose of education was to broaden the
thinking capacity of the students with a view to bring about a transformational change in their
personality (Rose 2015). In this context, they should be taught in a manner which is consistent
with their own cultural values and cultures.
This proposed form of intervention can prove to be effective for the dissemination of
information with regard to a foreign language in the context of male members of an educational
institution. Foreign languages are taught with the intention of making the students comfortable to
travelling to another country with different customs and traditions. In this context, the students

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are motivated not to forget about their own values and customs and to harmoniously integrate the
foreign traditions without feeling uncomrtable.
Evaluation
The change in pedagogy is dependent to a large extent on the approval level of the
students. In this context, it can be seen that certain students agreed to the changes brought about
in their pedagogy in the teaching of a modern foreign language, while some students were not
comfortable with the changes brought about. Out of a class room of 50 students of class 8, aged
12-13 years, it can be seen that -
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From the above graph, it can be seen that the changes proposed in the pedagogy of the
students in the form of a socio-cultural intervention, was accept by a group of 36 students out of
50 students in a class room. This shows that majority of the students have realized the
importance of the need of motivation to study a modern foreign language in a manner which is
harmonious and peaceful for all the ethnicities of the society. This is significant to understand
because the issue of multiculturalism has taken a strong foot hold within the frame work of the
society. There is a need on the part of the teachers to keep the male members of the society
motivated to study a foreign language for the purposes of them migrating to the another part of
the world in search of a better standard of living.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it can be stated that the main purpose of this paper is to look in to the need
for motivation for the boys of the society to impart modern foreign language education to them.
The field of studies require patience and concentration. As a result of this, the students need to be
kept motivated and encouraged as they are bound to lose their concentration during their period
of study. For the examination of this issue, the researcher has advocated the use of action
research. The paper has also mentioned about the values of pedagogy. Pedagogy is defined to be
the method of teaching. In other words, the mannerism and the methods with the aid of which the
teachers of a community are able to impart education to the students is referred to as pedagogy.
The values which have been identified in the course of this pedagogy are those of critical
thinking and broadening the mind frame of the students. This would enable the students to
imbibe the education imparted to them in the field of modern foreign language as they would be
encouraged by their teachers to reflect on what is being taught to them. In this context, it needs to
be noted that the aspect of motivation plays a significant role as there is a chance of the students

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to gradually lose interest in their studies. It depends upon the teacher to keep them motivated
which can be done by reformulating their pedagogies to include values of encouragement and
inspiration.

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