【超级口语十分钟｜ Motivate 鼓励】

问题：Is it a good way to motivate children to study by giving them a prize? 高分回答： Not really. I think giving children a prize only changes their motivation to study from an intrinsic one to anextrinsic one. In other words, giving them prizes willsteer their focus away from the true purpose of learning, and instead, they will be so obsessed withobtaining whatever it is that their parents are promising them. This will tie the motivation to study with the prize, which means that if the prize is absent, the child will lose all motivation on studying. So it just destroys the original objective of learning, which is to, you know,explore the world and gain a better understanding of it, rather than to serve as a method to get something children want from their parents. So I think the right way to go is to help children discover the fun in studying and make them want to study without any external incentive. 语料积累 重点词汇 intrinsic  adj. 内在的，本身的 extrinsic  adj. 外在的，外来的 obtain  v. 获取 absent  adj. 不存在，没有，缺席 explore  v. 探索、探查 incentive  n. 激励、刺激、动力 高分表达 steer sth away from sth 使...远离... be obsessed with sth 着迷于... tie sth with sth 把...和...绑在一起 the right way to go 正确的方式 关注超级学长，更多雅思音频等你来听！