{"id":10173,"date":"2014-07-02T17:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2014-07-02T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T17:16:04","slug":"motivation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10173","title":{"rendered":"Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2014\/jun\/26\/motivation-key-language-learning\">the Guardian<\/a> I came across today about motivation in language learning.<\/p>\n<p>The article discusses different types of motivation, and concludes that three things that are particularly important in language learning are working memory; associative memory &#8211; how well you content new and known information; and your ability to learn implicitly &#8211; that is the ability to spot patterns. If you have a good level in these skills, plus a high level of motivation, you are more likely to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>What motivates you to learn languages?<\/p>\n<p>For me it&#8217;s a combination of interest in the languages themselves, and in aspects of the cultures associated with them, especially music and literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article in the Guardian I came across today about motivation in language learning. The article discusses different types of motivation, and concludes that three things that are particularly important in language learning are working memory; associative memory &#8211; how well you content new and known information; and your ability to learn implicitly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}