having in mind the high level of challenge in writing as a foreign language, this research provided iranian efl learners with audiovisual feedbacks as an alternative of common written feedback and focused on its’ meaningfulness in order to provide an incentive medium for the participants and increase their moti-vation. one hundred young adult female learners in addition to six english language ...

Two factors increase the motivation to adhere to a goal: goal commitment and lack of goal progress. When people ask about commitment, focusing on what they have accomplished (to date) signals to them high commitment and increases motivation. Conversely, when commitment is certain and people ask about goal progress, focusing on what they have yet to accomplish (to go) signals to them lack of pro...

a survey on attitude of health workers of west azerbaijan health centers based on herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory 2006 a barati , f hosseini , s akbari received: 16 july, 2009 accepted: 25 oct, 2009 abstract background & aims: one of the main and important elements of every organization is to care for human source. staff satisfaction and motivation are of high significance in organiza...

Two factors increase the motivation to adhere to a goal: goal commitment and lack of goal progress. When people ask about commitment, focusing on what they have accomplished (to date) signals to them high commitment and increases motivation. Conversely, when commitment is certain and people ask about goal progress, focusing on what they have yet to accomplish (to go) signals to them lack of pro...

in despite of all progress in technology in mining industry, still labor is one of the key factors in mining operation. this paper presents a system dynamics approach to evaluate the mining labor productivity. therefore, after the identification of main effective variables, two quantitative and qualitative models were built. the qualitative model illustrates the complex interrelated structure o...

  With the advent of computer technology and educational software, hypermedia language learning materi-als made their way in foreign and second language classrooms. Today the role of hypermedia in improv-ing communication skills is by no means deniable. This research aimed at investigating the effect of hy-permedia on the oral performance as well as the motivation of Iranian EFL Learners. A pre...

although gardner and his associates’ work was most influential in the field of l2 motivation, from the early 1990s onwards, their work has been criticized for several reasons. some researchers claimed that integrative and instrumental orientations were no longer able to convey the complexity of the l2 motivation construct. to examine this complexity, the present study attempted to investigate t...

The present study examined the relationship between willingness to communicate (WTC) and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation among Iranian intermediate learners of English. It also attempted to identify the motivational orientations which best predicted learners’ WTC. Moreover, it measured Iranian intermediate learners’ willingness to read (WTR), willingness to listen (WTL), and willingness to write...