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  2. Reading motivation - Wikipedia

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    Reading and writing motivation are the processes to put more effort on reading and writing activities. [1] [2] Different strategies can be followed to develop a student's motivation to read. Integrating sensory organs with text materials. For example, when reading the word "apple", read it loudly, visualize, feel the texture, taste, and odor.

  3. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    To teach by example; for example, a teacher who wants students to do an activity may first demonstrate the activity, often with a student volunteer. Motivation In language instruction, the desire to learn. See “TEFL vs. TESL”. Motivation paradox Students’ main motivators are factors the teacher has little control over (integrated versus ...

  4. Student engagement - Wikipedia

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    Student engagement occurs when "students make a psychological investment in learning. They try hard to learn what school offers. They take pride not simply in earning the formal indicators of success (grades and qualifications), but in understanding the material and incorporating or internalizing it in their lives."

  5. Active learning - Wikipedia

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    Different games such as Jeopardy! and crossword puzzles always seem to get the students' minds going. [31] Learning by teaching is also an example of active learning because students actively research a topic and prepare the information so that they can teach it to the class. This helps students learn their own topic even better and sometimes ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  7. Motivational speaker - Wikipedia

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    Tony Robbins at seminar. A motivational speaker (or inspirational speaker) is a speaker who makes speeches intended to motivate or inspire an audience. Such speakers may attempt to challenge or transform their audiences. [1]

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  9. Content theory - Wikipedia

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    Motivation can develop through an individual's involvement within their cultural group. Personal motivation often comes from activities a person believes to be central to the everyday occurrences in their community. [55] An example of socio-cultural theory would be social settings where people work together to solve collective problems.