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David Matthews encourages teachers to get onto the same wavelength as their
teenage learners.
What is motivation?
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Possible solutions
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Throughout
the westernised
world, teenagers
are consuming
more media and
information at
a faster rate
than we as
teachers care
to realise. They
are bombarded
with thousands
of emails, text
messages each
day from friends,
advertisements
and invitations.
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References
Austria Education (2016) Matura or Graduate
Examination in Austria [online]. Available at:
http://www.austriaeducation.info/Tests/K-12Tests/Matura-in-Austria.html
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By projecting
a WhatsApp
message on the
whiteboard, it
is possible to
analyse areas
of colloquial
language and
focus on idiomatic
phrases. These
expressions can
then be embedded
in other messages
in other contexts
to offer the
students further
practice.
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