Cómo estudiar el papel que el desempeño docente y las formas de comunicación juegan en el clima motivacional del aula: sugerencias para un trabajo empírico = How to study the role of the teacher’s performance and way of communication in the motivacional climate in a class. Suggestions for empirical work

Abstract

We propose you a reflection about the motivational effect of the teacher’s figure in a class and we try to extract keys to increase the probability of generating a motivational environment of learning. Firstly, we will analyze the teacher’s performance. For this, we will take as starting point the four types of the teacher’s performance prototypes proposed by McLean (2002) and according to the four moments of teaching (see Alonso Tapia, 1997; 2005; Huertas, 1997), we will show prototypical examples of how each type of environment class demonstrate itself. Secondly, we will think about the teacher’s way of communicating and to analyze it, we will opt to differentiate two big distinct elements: the one that refers to the teacher as speech agent and the aspects related to the rhetorical and expressive content of this speec