EduScrum as a teaching method and its influence on vocational school students’ motivation

9th International Academic Conference on Teaching, Learning and Education

Year: 2025

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EduScrum as a teaching method and its influence on vocational school students’ motivation

Katarzyna Roszkowska-Bachanek

ABSTRACT:

EduScrum is a teaching method which was adapted from IT surroundings. Its main purpose was to make students responsible for their own learning process. The author of this abstract, who is also an English teacher, decided to use it during her classes and check if it has any impact on students’ motivation. For this reason, she chose a research group which consisted of vocational school students (a total of 135 people) studying at the First Degree Vocational School in Prudnik (a town in Poland). The level of students’ motivation was measured twice: at the beginning and at the end of a school year during which EduScrum method was constantly used. In order to measure the level of motivation- the students were asked to respond to the given statements using a Likert scale. The statements were selected according to three criteria based on self-discrepancy theory: statements regarding students’ actual L2 self, ideal L2 self and ought-to L2 self (what they think about their language skills, how they would like their language skills to look like and how the others would like their language skills to look like). The research tool used was a survey based on survey used by Dörnyei Zoltán and Ushioda Ema in Teaching and Researching motivation. in 2021. All the results were compared in order to optimise the learning process and make the language learning more efficient for all the students.

Keywords: innovative teaching methods, language learning, teaching English as a second language, secondary school teaching, self-perception