Student motivation is an important part of a student’s engagement in learning. Researchers and educators across broad educational contexts have identified and investigated a variety of specific motivation-related constructs related to learning. However, few studies have developed and tested survey instruments for measuring motivation constructs within engineering education in a valid and reliab...

This study investigated language teaching strategies, as reported by teachers and students, and the effects of these strategies on students’ motivation and English achievement. The participants consisted of 31 English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and their students (N = 694) in Catalonia, Spain. The teachers and students rated the frequency of use of 26 strategies in their classes. In a...

International students learning English as a second language in Australia were studied to find how their perception of teachers’ level of commitment to teach them English affects their own motivation to study English. A questionnaire survey was administered on the learners at three different levels of proficiency to also identify the relationship between the levels of study and the learners’ pe...

One of the most fundamental and important aspects of motivation is the urge to approach, which is manifest in its most basic form by moving toward (Harmon-Jones, Harmon-Jones, & Price, in press). Although much research has examined cognitive influences on approach motivation, less research has examined bodily influences. In this chapter (talk), we will present the results of a program of resear...

This study examines the potential connections among learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English, their perceptions of autonomy-supportive teaching and two individual difference variables, i.e. motivation and English speaking self-efficacy. Two hundred and five Iranian EFL learners responded to four questionnaires. The data obtained from the collected instruments were...