Box 19.1
1.- How important do you think motivation is for success in language learning, compared to, for example,
language aptitude?
I think that motivation it's very different from language aptitude, I understood that motivation is when the student want to learn about something (in this case second language), but language aptitude refers to the potential that a person has for learning languages, for example the learner possess natural abilities, faculties or skills that make easier the understanding of second language. So I think that motivation is more important than language aptitude, because I can have a student with all the technological or natural facilities but if he or she doesn't want to learn we can't force him to do it.
2.- The urge to engage in learning activity for its own sake (intrinsic motivation) is distinguishable from the urge
to learn for the sake of some external reward (extrinsic motivation). Do you think there is any difference between children and adults in the degree of influence of these two kinds of motivation?
I think that intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can exist in the same degree in adults as in children because it depends of the goal that they have, if both want the language to communicate with people their intrinsic motivation will be the same or similar, and if they want language cause they want good grades or stuff like rewards it will be the same motivation.
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