The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science and Technology (MEXT) are facing a plethora of pressures to become more global. This has led MEXT to draw up the ‘English Education Reform Plan Corresponding to Globalization.’ This education reform plan calls for a move away from grammar translation in favor of a communication based classroom. These reforms are to be implemented b...

Background: Academic writing is a complex and demanding activity in which students have to regulate their (meta)cognitive, motivational, linguistic processes self-regulatory strategies might serve as tool accomplish tasks. The research was done part of verification Zimmerman & Risemberg’s (1997) model self-regulation writing. Previous on the relationships between students’ self-regulated le...

Abstract In two studies, we examined functional dimensions of L2 learners’ self-regulation toward their motivational goals: assessment and locomotion. The constitutes the aspect concerned with critically evaluating relative quality states goals means to achieve them. locomotion mode uninterrupted movement from state goals. We developed scales measure self-regulatory modes. also how regulatory m...

Motivation for learning a new language is both self and time-oriented. The language learner’s motivation experiences gradual fluctuation over time and the view of oneself is different on each timescale of the study. Interaction among different timescales throughout the Second Language Development (SLD) is a novel area of investigation (de Bot, 2015). In order to probe this interactive nature, t...

Studies around the world show that students’ motivation for learning English as a foreign language is usually interconnected with teachers’ motivation. To explore this relationship, study investigated five Bangladeshi EFL early experiences, their visions of possible L2 selves, motivations becoming teachers and way they connect classroom teaching motivating students. This employed Motivational S...