Mindsets and Improving Achievement in Modern Language Learning

Educational Research focusing on a particular strategies employed to enhance Modern Foreign Language students' learning and performance with specific reference to Carol Dweck's work on Mindset. I hope this article will inspire colleagues to consider ways in which to take students' mindsets into account when planning language lessons in particular. The process of conducting the research along with the results made a difference to our approach to expectations and encouragement of the students and led to some changes in classroom practice.