The past decade has witnessed an increase in research on teacher motivation which has
been proved a crucial factor closely related to a number of variables in education such as …

This article intends to achieve two purposes:(a) to provide an overview of recent advances in
research on motivation to learn a foreign or second language (L2), and (b) to create the …

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason
why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies …

Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and
Processing is the first guide in the second language field devoted to the question of how to …

The purpose of this study was to investigate student motivation and achievement in English
and their relation to teacher motivation and strategy use in the classroom. Research …

As part of a large-scale project, this study investigated the differences between satisfied and
dissatisfied Iranian junior secondary school English teachers in terms of their job …

There is a wide body of research that shows how vitally important teachers are to successful
learning processes. What they do, think, feel and believe are central to what happens in their …

Until now, there has been relatively little research on the links between motivation and
learning experiences within the domain of language learning. This volume attempts to fill …

This study employed possible selves theory (Markus & Nurius, 1986) to conduct an
interpretive inquiry into the teaching motivation of four novice secondary school EFL …

Beyond the notion of decision-making of career choice just being rational, this article
proposes the primacy of 'affect'in the decision to become teachers over time. The article …