English Studies Department MA Student Presents her Work at the ELTA National Conference

Ms. Lindita Budini, student of the MA in Applied Linguistics with TESOL, presented her work at the 11^th English Language Teachers’ Association of Albania (ELTA) National Conference “Embodied Brains, Social Minds, Cultural Meaning – Emotions and Social Behaviours as Fundamentals of Learning”, which took place on May 3-4 at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Tirana.

More specifically, Ms. Budini delivered a workshop titled “The Five ‘A Words’ that Sustain Learners’ Motivation” based on Jeremy Harmer’s ‘motivation angel’, which discussed the five stages that contribute to learner’s initial motivation: affect, achievement, attitude, activities and agency, combined with strategies for building good rapport, keeping learners engaged and reinforcing their belief in success.