My mistaken reactions to different motivations - My Progresses 92
It was not until just now that I came up with the idea that my reactions to different motivations, especially to learn English has been mistaken. Why didn't I motivate even more English learners with different motivations?
I have been cynical about those English learners of different type. Actually my motivation is non standard and those people are with typical motivation of learning English. They want to talk a lot, fluently and with many people, or they want to travel abroad. Some people (a lot of people) learn for business purpose. I didn't resonate with the motivation that they want to talk fluently, more, with more people because I had found that having communication with other people was stressful, even in speaking in Japanese.
Now I'm thinking that even though I don't like to talk with a lot of people, and I'm not really prone to go abroad, I may want to understand the motivation that they want to talk fluently, a lot, with a lot of people, and widen their world by going abroad. At least I will be able to collect data, if not I myself don't really want to go, of foreign countries and think of topics the people the learner want to talk with. Doing this certainly add values contents of my writing.
And what about my non-standard motivation? First I continue to learn English because I can't forget the success experiences of English learning in junior high school and high school, mainly based on exams. Second, by learning English more, I have come to know that there are a lot of great speakers and writers. Being able to understand them as many as possible and as deep as possible give me much pleasure, and I want many people to feel this pleasure. My writing is so poor that I can hardly communicate this pleasure, but communicating this pleasure will certainly be my new motivation which I want to realize in my life.
I have been cynical about those English learners of different type. Actually my motivation is non standard and those people are with typical motivation of learning English. They want to talk a lot, fluently and with many people, or they want to travel abroad. Some people (a lot of people) learn for business purpose. I didn't resonate with the motivation that they want to talk fluently, more, with more people because I had found that having communication with other people was stressful, even in speaking in Japanese.
Now I'm thinking that even though I don't like to talk with a lot of people, and I'm not really prone to go abroad, I may want to understand the motivation that they want to talk fluently, a lot, with a lot of people, and widen their world by going abroad. At least I will be able to collect data, if not I myself don't really want to go, of foreign countries and think of topics the people the learner want to talk with. Doing this certainly add values contents of my writing.
And what about my non-standard motivation? First I continue to learn English because I can't forget the success experiences of English learning in junior high school and high school, mainly based on exams. Second, by learning English more, I have come to know that there are a lot of great speakers and writers. Being able to understand them as many as possible and as deep as possible give me much pleasure, and I want many people to feel this pleasure. My writing is so poor that I can hardly communicate this pleasure, but communicating this pleasure will certainly be my new motivation which I want to realize in my life.
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