introduction        the inscription of rabatak was found in 1993 near an ancient hill in the north part of baghlan in afghanistan. the village of rabatak is situated at the kilometer forty in the north-western part of the ancient province of sorkh-kotal near the border between baghlan and samangan provinces. the rabatak inscription includes 23 lines in bactrian language and a greco-bactrian scr...

The study aims at focusing on the relationship between motivation, culture, and success in foreign language learning in globalizing world. Many studies have been done to examine the relationship between them. The studies showed that culture can play a motivating role in language learning success. Considering Gardner's instrumental and integrative motivation, a learner with a high degree of inte...

Humanizing language learning materials helps language teachers to design activities that are linked to learn- ers’ lives and experiences. This can result in higher motivation and engagement in the process of foreign language learning. Self-determination theory-based instruction enhances learners’ engagement and motiva- tion through supporting the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competen...

Motivation is an important aspect of language acquisition. This study was devised to determine the motivational orientations of medical and dentistry students at Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS) in English language acquisition. In this crossdescriptive study, 200 students of the dentistry and medical schools were chosen by census sampling method in 2009. The data gathering method...

a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

Inspiring teaching is the kind of pedagogy that motivates pupils to study autonomously, in their own time, of their own volition beyond the classroom, and may be particularly important for long-term endeavours such as learning a second language. This study aimed to find out the prevalence and nature of inspiring English language teaching in the state school systems in two Asian contexts, Guangz...

Ema Ushioda is a professor and Head of the Department Applied Linguistics at University Warwick. She has been interested in motivation autonomy language learning for over 30 years, particularly from pedagogical qualitative research perspectives. Recent books include Teaching researching (3 rd ed.), co-authored with Zoltán Dörnyei (Routledge, 2021), Language motivation: An ethical agenda (Oxford...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to explore the educational needs and design aspects of personalised internet-enabled education for patients with diabetes in Iran. DESIGN Data were collected using semistructured interviews and then qualitatively analysed using inductive content analysis. PARTICIPANTS 9 patients with type 2 diabetes were included. Inclusion criteria were access to ...