11. Motivation and Content

Meltzer, J., & Hamann, E. T. (2004). Meeting the literacy development needs of adolescent English language learners through content area learning part one: Focus on motivation and engagement. Providence, RI: Brown University, The Education Alliance.
Read: Meltzer(2004)

ELL literacy, Meltzer and Hamann (2004) determined that three classroom practices supported motivation and engagement for language-minority teens: (a) connection to students' lives and, therefore, to their background knowledge; (b) responsive classroom environments that encouraged student voice and provided literacy choices; and (c) student interaction during literacy practice that promoted questioning, predicting, and summarizing.

•  Personal narratives and dialogue journals fulfill the requirements of a, b, and c thus my focal purpose of my research project is to find:

Does personal narrative pieces or dialogue journals increase motivation of ELLs and create positive attitudes towards SLA?