Ten Commandments for Motivating Language Learners

1. Set a personal example with your own behaviour
2. Develop a good relationship with the learners
3. Increase the learners’ linguistic self-confidence
4. Make the language classes interesting
5. Promote learner autonomy
6. Personalise the learning process
7. Increase the learners’ goal-orientedness
8. Familiarize learners with the target culture
9. Create a pleasant relaxed atmosphere in the classroom
10.Present the tasks properly

Dörnyei, Z. (1998) ‘Ten Commandments for motivating language learners: results of an empirical study’Language Teaching Research 2,3: 203-229.