Physical education teachers can influence students’ self-determination through the motivational strategies they use. In this study, the authors examined the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of class average self-determination, the teachers’ self-determination, and their reported use of 3 motivational strategies: autonomy support, structure, and involvement. They examined the relations...

Learner autonomy has attracted numerous researchers in language teaching for the last four decades. However, there exists still a need to investigate what extent learners of foreign languages, particular languages other than English, are autonomous. This study aims learner learning French at university Turkey by exploring students’ perceptions relevant (i.e., responsibilities, abilities, and me...

the purpose of the present study was to identify any significant relationship between critical thinking ability, l2 vocabulary knowledge, and l2 vocabulary learning strategies of iranian efl learners. to this aim, the productive vocabulary levels test was administered to measure the learner’s l2 vocabulary knowledge and observe homogeneity in terms of vocabulary knowledge. at the second stage, ...

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...

Research suggests that different motivational dynamics underlie right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO). These differences may be framed in the theory of basic human values. RWA may trace back to conservation versus openness-to-change values, and SDO to self-enhancement versus self-transcendence values. Based on a large-scale German survey, associations of RWA a...

هدف از این پژوهش اعتبار سنجی پرسشنامه جدید ۴ عاملی سیستم خود انگیزشی زبان دوم بعنوان یکی عوامل تاثیرگذار بر یادگیری انگلیسی بوده است. در تحقیق طرح پیمایشی به شیوه ی الگوی معادلات ساختاری نوع تحلیل تأییدی استفاده شده تعداد ۵۹۹ نفر (۳۰۸ دانشجوی خانم و ۲۹۱ آقا) سطح پیش متوسطه رده سنی ۲۵-۱۸سال که دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی – واحد تهران شرق رشته های مختلف تحصیلی مشغول تحصیل می باشند، شرکت کردند. آنجائیکه ا...

Using motivational intensity theory as a framework, three experiments examined how implicit self-focus (manipulated with masked first-name priming) and explicit self-focus (manipulated with a large mirror) influence effort-related cardiovascular activity, particularly systolic blood pressure reactivity. Theories of self-focused attention suggest that both implicit and explicit self-focus bring ...