self-assessment helps learners to acquire self-confidence and gives them insightfulfeedbacks. there is no valid self-assessment inventory for learners of english foracademic purposes (eap). this study aimed at developing an academicallyappropriate instrument to measure tertiary students’ english in academic situations.the study used both qualitative and quantitative methods in developing the se...

The present study examined the effects of instructional and motivational self-talk on handball performance using a novel task (nondominant arm) and a learned task (dominant arm) in primary school students. Participants were randomly assigned into two experimental groups (instructional and motivational) and one control group. The results revealed that for both tasks instructional and motivationa...

Abstract The present article examines the importance of language attitudes and ideologies for studying motivation to learn minority languages by adults. In contemporary globalised world, proficiency not only in English, but also other languages, is necessary order communicate internationally find employment. These may be ‘major’ state such as French or Spanish. However, many linguistically dive...

While it is increasingly recognized that teachers have a crucial role to play in motivating learners, language teacher cognition research focuses on beliefs about second (L2) learner motivation and motivational practices still rare, particularly English for specific purposes (ESP) settings Asia. Furthermore, much of what available does not employ stimulated recall interviews facilitate comparis...

Motivational interviewing is a directive, non-confrontational intervention to promote behavior change. The current study examined therapist behaviors during a successful brief motivational interviewing intervention for physically aggressive college dating couples (Woodin & O'Leary, 2010). Forty-five minute motivational interviews with each partner were videotaped and coded using the Motivationa...

Studies in many educational settings show that motivation and anxiety are related to learning foreign languages (FL). Acknowledging the relevance multifaceted complexity of anxiety, present study aims examine relationships Ethiopian context where such research has not been conducted. To do so, first, we needed validate L2 motivational self-system (L2MSS, Dörnyei, 2009) a new FL scale, based on ...

INTRODUCTION This study examines the outcomes of a 22-hr motivational interviewing (MI) course and compares online and in-person offerings of the course. It also evaluates clinicians' ability to accurately self-assess their MI skills. METHOD 34 clinicians participated in this study and completed MI workshops either in-person or online. Use of MI in an acting patient encounter was recorded ear...