{"id":267,"date":"2012-03-26T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2013-11-24T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T18:46:13","slug":"what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RELATIONSHIP<\/p>\n

Justyna: What happens between two people ( a student and a teacher) determines everything which means effectiveness, satisfaction, success. There are several ingredients of this positive alchemy between people, but to my mind\u00a0 the most crucial are: empathy, liking, trust, and comfort.<\/p>\n

Monika: I agree; I’d also like to add that all these elements\u00a0 derive from altruism so necessary for this job and consequently from emotional intelligence. As\u00a0Gustaw Holoubek\u00a0<\/a>said in his last interview: I prefer to be intelligent than intellectual\u201d…<\/p>\n

GOAL<\/p>\n

Justyna: Once a student of mine was a very busy doctor at the very mature age. He wished he had learnt to communicate in English in 3 months. He wanted to enjoy and use English during his lonely trip abroad. What a goal?! What a challenge?! And then how great the success was!!! So I think that a teacher should identify with his student\u2019s goal completely. It has to be a shared goal stuck with involvement of both people.<\/p>\n

Monika:\u00a0 One condition: this goal must be realistic in order to avoid disappointments.<\/p>\n

MOTIVATION<\/p>\n

Justyna: I don\u2019t want to motivate students. I want them to be motivated.<\/p>\n

Monika:\u00a0 Normally adults are already motivated and have a specific goal (foreign language for work or travelling etc…) but I think that children\u00a0 and teenagers should be\u00a0 constantly motivated as they rarely consider learning a new language a priority, something personal.\u00a0 Unfortunately school is often to be blamed for that (at least in Italy \u2026) by discouraging instead of motivating their students. An example of motivating: young children (and sometimes teenagers too) shouldn’t be\u00a0 corrected\u00a0 immediately after\u00a0 they ‘d said something in a foreign language, it’s quite discouraging for them. It would be enough to repeat their sentence correctly\u00a0 later (echoing) ; without even noticing it, they will\u00a0 absorb the correct version and consequently make progress \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

INDIVIDUALISM<\/p>\n

Justyna: There is no one teaching programme or a universal course book, isn\u2019t there?<\/p>\n

Monika:I improvise a lot during my lessons (some funny situation\u00a0 or humoristic phrase may always come up which\u00a0 assures a good laugh ;).\u00a0 Instead, the choice of material is quite precise; well, a student must talk about something, right? I try to adapt\u00a0 the material to individual needs, also\u00a0 ( at higher levels) using the multiple intelligent test\u00a0 created by\u00a0 prof. Howard Gardner; the results show the strongest and the weakest skills od my students (you would be surprise by the fact that there are teenagers whose musical intelligence in so low that there is no point doing songs with them as they even tell me that they don’t like songs). I have a very talented student in the last high school grade; her English skills are great apart from speaking…well she doesn’t like speaking, it’s just her character. People like her should be praised for every correct sentence they say, it gives them wings. I also remember a 14-year-old boy\u00a0 who\u00a0 is\u00a0 not quite a chatter as well… he once said \u201eI don’t like emotions\u201d instead of saying \u201eI don’t like emoticons\u201d (plus serious face)\u00a0 and that killed me!\u00a0 :))) So I also made a serious face and I whispered \u201e You’re scaryyyy\u201d and he just started laughing\u00a0 so much that he cried \ud83d\ude42 Since then he’s been chatting and joking like he was another person … just to have a good laugh.<\/p>\n

FUN<\/p>\n

Monika: It’s not my fault that I’m a mix of\u00a0Irena Kwiatkowska<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bielicka<\/a>plus some British humour ;\u00a0 It runs in the family my dear\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00 By the way, some time ago I read a serious scientific article about teaching languages\u00a0 with humour which means that somebody else noticed that an amused student is a motivated student whose blood runs faster in his brain and makes learning process smooth \ud83d\ude42 When we learn a new language we go back to our childhood and children…love to laugh! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Justyna: So it means that going to your lessons\u00a0 requires wearing pampers :-))<\/p>\n

* Monika is better than I am at two things: English and singing:).\u00a0 She is an English teacher who combines wide knowledge with passion and she really enjoys teaching. Click here to see her profile at\u00a0GoldenLine.pl.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RELATIONSHIP Justyna: What happens between two people ( a student and a teacher) determines everything which means effectiveness, satisfaction, success. There are several ingredients of this positive alchemy between people, but to my mind\u00a0 the most crucial are: empathy, liking, trust, and comfort. Monika: I agree; I’d also like to add that all these elements\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language? - Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language? - Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RELATIONSHIP Justyna: What happens between two people ( a student and a teacher) determines everything which means effectiveness, satisfaction, success. There are several ingredients of this positive alchemy between people, but to my mind\u00a0 the most crucial are: empathy, liking, trust, and comfort. Monika: I agree; I’d also like to add that all these elements\u00a0 […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Niebieszczanska\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-03-26T18:45:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-11-24T18:46:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/justynaniebieszczanska-cover-next.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"bridgehead\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"bridgehead\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"bridgehead\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1e94fabd3f0fabf87de9438aef0719a2\"},\"headline\":\"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language?\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-03-26T18:45:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-11-24T18:46:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/\"},\"wordCount\":710,\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/\",\"name\":\"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language? - Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-03-26T18:45:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-11-24T18:46:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1e94fabd3f0fabf87de9438aef0719a2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska\",\"description\":\"Przerzuc\u0119 most, po kt\u00f3rym przejdziesz...\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1e94fabd3f0fabf87de9438aef0719a2\",\"name\":\"bridgehead\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f958b74aa2a640c4f8be918b80a0d1fdc167fc3e7155baea05797fbcab53e5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f958b74aa2a640c4f8be918b80a0d1fdc167fc3e7155baea05797fbcab53e5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f958b74aa2a640c4f8be918b80a0d1fdc167fc3e7155baea05797fbcab53e5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"bridgehead\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/author\/bridgehead\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language? - Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language? - Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska","og_description":"RELATIONSHIP Justyna: What happens between two people ( a student and a teacher) determines everything which means effectiveness, satisfaction, success. There are several ingredients of this positive alchemy between people, but to my mind\u00a0 the most crucial are: empathy, liking, trust, and comfort. Monika: I agree; I’d also like to add that all these elements\u00a0 […]","og_url":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/","og_site_name":"Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Niebieszczanska","article_published_time":"2012-03-26T18:45:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-11-24T18:46:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/justynaniebieszczanska-cover-next.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"bridgehead","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"bridgehead","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/"},"author":{"name":"bridgehead","@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1e94fabd3f0fabf87de9438aef0719a2"},"headline":"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language?","datePublished":"2012-03-26T18:45:43+00:00","dateModified":"2013-11-24T18:46:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/"},"wordCount":710,"articleSection":["Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/","url":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/","name":"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language? - Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-03-26T18:45:43+00:00","dateModified":"2013-11-24T18:46:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1e94fabd3f0fabf87de9438aef0719a2"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/what-makes-us-want-to-learn-and-teach-a-foreign-language\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What makes us want to learn and teach a foreign language?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/","name":"Justyna Niebieszcza\u0144ska","description":"Przerzuc\u0119 most, po kt\u00f3rym przejdziesz...","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/1e94fabd3f0fabf87de9438aef0719a2","name":"bridgehead","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f958b74aa2a640c4f8be918b80a0d1fdc167fc3e7155baea05797fbcab53e5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f958b74aa2a640c4f8be918b80a0d1fdc167fc3e7155baea05797fbcab53e5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f958b74aa2a640c4f8be918b80a0d1fdc167fc3e7155baea05797fbcab53e5a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"bridgehead"},"url":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/author\/bridgehead\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}