Affiliation:
1. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Abstract
What is it? Motivation to learn starts with wonder and the breath of
wonder transcending curiosity, which Piaget (1969) defined as the urge to
explain the unexpected and Engel (2011) as the urge to know more. When
wondering, learners express the desire to know what they do not know, as
well as what they already know. In the modern languages curriculum, a
language learner who uses ‘wonder’ is driven by curiosity for the
language(s); has questions about the place and the people; has a wish to
know more about various cultures; and eventually become a lifelong linguist.
When we introduce learning design based on the pedagogy of wonder, we
implement an approach that allows learners to become agents of their own
learning by initiating the questioning themselves. L'Ecuyer (2014) defines
the emotional response to this type of pedagogy as a possible consequence of
wonder, rather than wonder as such.
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