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Motivation is self direction, and this can only be only from within. I teach English to adults who mostly feel they are lesser because of their lack of language skills. Their self esteem gets hurt quite easily, and, this issue of hurt self-esteem troubles students from both age groups, younger and not so young ones. Constructive feedback is critical for their learning and progressing, but how we construct that feedback makes such a huge difference. Saying, that you have done all correctly, but for this, and this, and that, sometimes might work. They want to start all over again, and though they make some of the same, or similar mistakes, they keep trying. On the other hand, some students become really frustrated that they didn’t get it 100% right, and stop trying.  I’d say it is their self motivation, a sense of self-direction that is the key for their learning.

  Five words to be used are:  Stream Queue Cherry Brim Self  Stream of Joy  O' flow of time,  please go slowly,  O' stream of joy,  don't flow over the brim, let me contain my self first,  and be grateful for this bounty. Yes, these rows of cherry blossoms,  that promise ,  such  a harvest of  treasures !  This pure water, these fruits, and  flowers, with every trim,  that queue up, one by one, just for me, each season. Let me say my grace at least,  and acknowledge my fortune, as I partake of this  smorgasbord   of pleasures!