Gonna move that there. Okay, let's go. Hi there, welcome back to Pronunciation with Emma, today we're not
going to be looking at pronunciation, we're going to be looking at something that's just
as important and that's goal setting and staying motivated. So if you're
struggling with motivation and language learning, then stick around until the end
of this video because I'm gonna share four tips that you can start using today
to make your life a little bit easier. Before we get started with the tips
though, hello and welcome back to my channel, if you are a returning
subscriber, if you're brand new here then hello and welcome my name is Emma and if
you haven't already subscribed then do that. So tip number one that I want to
suggest to you is to change your mindset, now this might sound really boring, like "Emma
okay, I'm going to click off this video" but honestly stick around right listen
to me listen, listen. So your mindset is incredibly powerful. I see a lot of
people, my students included, like my private students, friends, they're so
negative sometimes and I can definitely tell that this negative mentality has an
impact on how they are learning the language and their attitude towards the
language so I tend to find that the students who are the most negative and
the most pessimistic about learning languages, they tend to be the ones that
don't end up being as successful. So for example I found that students who
struggled the most with grammar were actually the ones that told
themselves grammar is really difficult they convince themselves that they told
themselves that "oh I don't like grammar it's difficult so I'm never gonna learn
it" and what happened, they didn't they didn't learn it or they didn't learn it
very well. While I found the students who had a very positive mentality, they saw
English as being like a puzzle where they just put the pieces together and oh you
have a sentence, these are the students who are most likely to succeed that's
from my experience anyway. I don't think there's any particular research on this.
I will have a quick look, if I find anything, I'll put it down in the
description, in general if your mindset is positive
and you aren't relaxed when you're learning English and you're, I don't wanna say
when you're happy when you're learning English, but you are not stressed or
you're not feeling upset or pressured or anything like that, you are more likely
to succeed in learning the language, so change your mindset I promise it will
definitely make a difference. There's also the theory called the affective
filter, I do not remember which theorist it is. I think it's Krashen. I will add
some text somewhere to correct myself or confirm whether that is correct,
but anyway, there is a theory called the affective filter and essentially when
you are stressed or under pressure or feeling unhappy or miserable or you're
worried or whatever, if you have some kind of negative emotion then this
impacts on the way that you learn a you produce language. So the more stressed
you are for example the less likely you are to remember information, so you're
less likely to remember vocabulary and remember grammar, you're also less likely
to be able to produce language more fluently whether it's in writing form or
in spoken form. You're more likely to go blank and things like that. While if you
are more relaxed your affective filter goes down and you're able to retain
information back there you remember grammar better and vocabulary, you also
produce language a lot better so that's just something to bear in mind and that
is research proven so that's not just me saying that that is
research that's saying that. So the less stressed you are, the better. The next tip
I want to give is setting micro goals so a lot of people they say "I wanna be
fluent in English I wanna sound like a native speaker" okay, great - they're
fantastic goals to have, however, let's make them a little bit more realistic. So
instead of saying "I want to be fluent in English" let's break it down, so "I want to,
for example, perfect the present simple" that's our first goal the second goal
"I want to be able to use the past simple in English correctly" great, next goal "I
want be able to use the present perfect" then
the next goal may be "I want to be able to learn how to distinguish between past
simple and present perfect". So you see what I'm doing? I'm setting very very
small goals and I mean you could make those goals even smaller, so you could
focus on, for example, "I want to learn all the regular present simple verbs" "I want
to learn all the irregular past simple tenses" for example so you can really
really really narrow those goals down into something very very small and
particular. This is a lot more realistic and a lot less stressful you could say
than saying "I want to be fluent by January" great, but what is fluency to you?
Is it sounding like a native speaker? Is it being able to communicate with
your friends in your class or what is it? Fluency means something different to
every single person so that's quite a hard way to... what I'm trying to say is it's a
hard goal to achieve because you'll find that your perception of fluency always
change. So yeah, set micro goals, it makes life so much easier and you can track
your progress. Now related to tip number 2 is tip number 3, and that is to find
the problems that you have with grammar, with English, with vocabulary, whatever,
and focus on those problems first because that's where you will start to see
the most progress. So for example if you have problems by past simple and present
perfect "oh I know the difference sometimes but when I use them it's
difficult" practise that, practise and perfect because the only way you're
going to get better is by practising. You're not going to get better by
scrolling on Facebook on Instagram, are you? So, practise, practise, practise. Focus
on those things, set yourself very realistic deadlines for them as well. And
the last tip I want to give, tip number 4, is find an accountability buddy. So
what do I mean by an accountability buddy? This is basically a friend or a
teacher or someone who is willing to hold you accountable to things so when
you say "I want to learn new word every day", that is going to be
your goal, one new word every day in 2020, fantastic, that's a completely achievable
goal, so one word you tell your accountability buddy,
they will also have something that they want to do for 2020 as well, and have as
their goal. Let's imagine it's erm, I don't know, focusing on how to use past
simple and present perfect, so they tell you that and you hold each other
accountable. You now have someone who is basically on your back asking you every
day "have you learned your word today?" "have you learned your word today?" "have
you practised your past and your present perfect today?" and you keep
kind of motivating each other, so you have this friend that you just use as that
motivation and that push and you both equally have to do it, okay, so if that
other person is pushing you, you need to push them as well to make sure that
they're achieving their goals. Hold each other accountable and keep pushing each
other. It will definitely motivate you. I use this trick a lot, like, with my
business, so when I say, for example, "oh I want to launch my course by January" I
know that now that I've told my accountability buddy this, I need to get
my course out because I feel like I'm not just letting myself down if I don't,
but I will be letting my accountability buddy down as well and it goes the same
for them. They tell me "I want to whatever" with their goal, I keep pushing them and
they feel like they've let me down. This might not be something for everyone
because you might feel like you're disappointing everyone, but do
realise it's not the end of the world. Your accountability buddy is just there
to give you motivation that is it. So I hope these tips have helped you, if you
have any other tips ,please do share them below in the comments. What do you do to
save motivated and how do you set goals? Do you do it in a similar way to what
I've suggested in this video or do you have your own special way? Let me know in
the comments. I hope you have a fantastic week, if you've enjoyed this video, please
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It's is a nice free way to help me out. Besides all that, thank you for watching
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