self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s cognition, behavior, actions, and motivation strategically and autonomously in order to achieve self-set goals including the learning of academic skills and knowledge. accordingly, self-regulated learning involves self-generated and systematic thoughts and behaviors with the aim of attaining learning goals. with that in mind, this study aimed to ...

Language is an important tool of communication, especially in a foreign setting. Foreign language teachers, help their students to access experiences by reason ability communicate with nationals. Teachers’ motivation however influences education and its effectiveness. The aim this study examine the predictive effect teachers' motivations on attitudes towards distance education. For purpose, 356...

The year 2020 marked the 25th since Bonny Norton published her influential TESOL Quarterly article, ‘Social identity, investment, and language learning’ (Norton Peirce, 1995) fifth we, Darvin (2015), co-authored ‘Identity a model of investment in applied linguistics’ Annual Review Applied Linguistics. From time Norton's 1995 piece was published, motivation have been conceptually imbricated ofte...

In view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. The dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. In recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. The challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...

the purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of intelligence beliefs and achievement motivation on learning strategies and academic performance of agricultural students. this research was descriptive - correlation with data collected using questionnaire. the statistical population included students in colleges of agriculture at universities of tehran, bouali sina, ilam, shahid bah...