The current study presents findings from a mixed-methods study of investigating the self-regulatory role of private speech (self-talk) on students’ translation quality. The aim of the study was to validate the adapted version of a self-verbalization questionnaire. The construct validity and reliability of the scale were supported by the CFA which revealed that all items reached the acceptable f...

the aim of this study was to describe and find out motivational english language learning strategies through computers among iranian efl learners and find out how learners’ motivations change towards english language learning through computers.the mixed method approach (quantitative and qualitative) was employed in this study. a total of 84 (out of 130) female freshman university learners from ...

the present study aimed to explore (a) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and their resiliency, (b) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and their genders, and (c) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and years of teaching experience. through a convenience method of sampling, the first group of participa...

This article examines the role of cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational skills in problem solving. Cognitive skills include instructional objectives, components in a learning hierarchy, and components in information processing. Metacognitive skills include strategies for reading comprehension, writing, and mathematics. Motivational skills include motivation based on interest, self-efficacy...

The aim of the present study was to verify, during a stressful sport competition, the associations between motivational antecedents and consequences of the coping process. Using a two-wave design, we tested a model that incorporates motivational orientations, coping dimensions, goal attainment, and affective states among athletes (N = 122). Path analyses using EQS revealed that selfdeterminatio...

The primary purpose of the present study was to identify motivational profiles of adolescent athletes using cluster analysis in non-Western culture. A second purpose was to examine relationships between physical self-perception differences of adolescent athletes and motivational profiles. One hundred and thirty six male (Mage = 17.46, SD = 1.25 years) and 80 female adolescent athletes (Mage = 1...