Curiosity, concentration and motivation. Emotion-cognition process of the first 10 minutes of the Japanese Language course

What could be the best way to increase students’ curiosity, concentration and to solidify their motivation for Japanese learning as a foreign language? During my modest experience of Japanese Language teaching for Belgian French-native students, I observed a quite interesting fact. It seems that when a student, at the beginning (or during) the course, feels some strong, deep emotions, linked to the matters presented by the teacher, he/she will memorize more deeply the contents of the course, and will remember them long time after his/her learning period. This presentation aims to show several examples of these “emotion-cognition process”, which seems to be decisive for building a solid learning environment, in particular during the first 10 minutes of each course.