NO CANE, NO CANDY (POWER UP INTRINSIC MOTIVATION IN LEARNING)

Abstract

The common motivational methods we often apply are offering rewards or punishments to encourage learner autonomy by which students must try to gain or not to lose something like scores. More harmfully, students become grade-driven and confusedly consider grade the only purpose of the learning process. In this action research conducted with 22 C1-certificated students, we have tested Self-motivation method titled GIVE to encourage learners’ autonomy which then leads them to intrinsic achievements. This method’s
reflection has based on Questionaires, Teaching logs, Grade and Case interviews. The findings prove that GIVE is sustainable and continuous: when learners experience and enjoy the sweet of the intrinsic rewards, they find a non-stop motivation generated and gradually set up such mechanism as “bee-honey; work-money”.