The questions Box 19.1

1.  How important do you think motivation is for sucess in language learning, compared to, for example, language aptitude?

• Motivation is an important factor of  learning in general, because there may be someone who has many aptitudes to generate an appropriate learning, but if he does not have motivation to acquire new knowledge, learning will not be effective because there will be no interest by student to progress. Everybody can get good result but it depends on how motivated is the student.   

      2.    What characteristics and behaviours you associate with the image of a 
             motivated learned? 

• I think that the most visible characteristic is his willingness  to participate in the various activities and the dedication that he employs on them. Because he knows that this will help him to achieve his goals, so he works hard in class and even improve his knowledge on his own