The Use of Instructional and Motivational Self-Talk in Setting Up a Physical Education Lesson

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to provide guidelines to physical educators for setting up a self-talk program during their lesson. The article briefly presents definitions of self-talk and research findings in sport and physical education to highlight the important benefits of positive self-talk in enhancing task performance. It also provides self-talk guidelines to enhance task performance and skill acquisition during the physical education lesson and demonstrates that self-talk is applicable not only in sport settings but in physical education as well.