In the classroom, teachers know how to motivate their students and how to exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimize their instruction when a student shows signs of demotivation. In on-line learning environments it is much more difficult to assess a learner’s motivation and to have adaptive intervention strategies and rules of application to help prevent attrition or dropout. In this paper, we...

The current study investigates the reasons of EFL teachers’ unwillingness and demotivation towards being more assessment literate. 19 teachers working in preparatory programs various state universities took part study, data were collected via semi-structured interviews. Those deliberately chosen from 27 based on their negative utterances literate relation to aim study. obtained participants wit...

In spite of the importance of teacher's motivation only a limited number of studies have been conducted on teacher's demotivation in Iran. This study was an attempt to investigate demotivating factors among Iranian EFL language institute teachers in terms of years of teaching experience. To this end, the researchers tried to utilize a questionnaire as a research method. To collect data, a valid...

In spite of the importance of teacher's motivation only a limited number of studies have been conducted on teacher's demotivation in Iran. This study was an attempt to investigate demotivating factors among Iranian EFL language institute teachers in terms of years of teaching experience. To this end, the researchers tried to utilize a questionnaire as a research method. To collect data, a valid...

Motivation is thought to be one of the elements in learning anything. Zoltán Dörnyei has carried out remarkable work on role motivation second language learning. The paper aims at investigating correlation among various motivating and other factors researched by Pakistani context. It also examines between total demotivation assuming that there must a causal effect. adapts Dörnyei’s questionnair...

The inter-dynamic symbiosis between employees’ motivation and social contact is crucial in our understanding of behavioral management and as such, this study investigates the effect of perceptual propinquity on double demotivation in a repeated subject design. There were two hypotheses. Firstly, it is hypothesized that the subjects who are highly and lowly paid as compared to their counterparts...

the present study is an attempt to explore any significant relationships between learners’ preferences for error correction, demotivation, and language proficiency (lp). one hundred iranian efl students, including both males and females, studying at the departments of foreign languages of shahid bahonar university of kerman and tehran university took part in this study. in order to obtain the r...

Large-scale environmental epidemiologic studies often rely on exposure estimates based on linkage to residential addresses. This approach, however, is limited by the lack of residential histories typically available for study participants. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using address data from LexisNexis (a division of RELX, Inc., Dayton, Ohio), a commercially available credit...