The more the children are interested in what they are learning, the more they want to understand the content of the stories, sketches, dialogues, etc. Likewise, the children's behaviour in interactive exercises will largely depend on their meaningfulness. If they are involved in an interesting information gap activity, for example, their focus will be on communication and, chances are, they will interact more effectively with one another. When we teach the foreign language as communication, the new language becomes a means of developing the child and it is not an end in itself. Likewise, the activities that we engage our children in need to pose challenging and meaningful tasks.
Content influences the children s motivation Children are curious.
They want to learn if what they are supposed to learn attracts their attention. Therefore, texts and activities have to make sense. If a text is amusing, stimulates thought or inspires the children's imagination, they will want to understand it - not because of the structures, words or other linguistic 'jewels' that the text has to offer, but because of its content. Thus the foreign language becomes a reality for the children. The reception of this reality becomes a need and makes it easy and meaningful for them to communicate in the target language.