Fictitious emails and their use as a motivational strategy

Abstract

This article aims to show how a fictitious email persona and fictitious email correspondence can be used to motivate students within the English classroom, thus helping to achieve curriculum objectives while also fostering an active and stimulating environment. Practicum activities carried out in the upper stages of a state primary school in Catalonia are presented as an illustrative case study which provides various examples of how to deploy the kind of motivational strategies proposed by Zoltán Dörnyei (2001) in Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom