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Peter Claudius Osei; David F. Bjorklund – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
The complexity of modern societies necessitates that children learn highly abstract material, such as mathematics, which often conflicts with behavioral goals that are innately motivating. For instance, children's educational success is generally evaluated based on their individual achievements, while humans are motivated to learn by engaging in…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Systems Approach, Learning Processes, Physiology
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Wu, Manfred Man-fat – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
Metacognition is one of the key notions in contemporary research both in second language (L2) teaching and education in general. L2 metacognition has been found to contribute significantly to learner variables such as language learning motivation. The main feature of the findings on L2 metacognition research based on the diverse theoretical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Metacognition, Learning Motivation, Social Experience
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Luis F. Cisneros – HOW, 2024
Learning a foreign language incorporates cognitive, communicative, emotional, and social aspects. Some of these aspects have to do with the structure of the language being studied; some others deal with social and psychological issues that influence the environment where the learning process takes place. This reflection paper addresses various…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Processes, Psychological Patterns
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Jelena Jovanovic; Dragan Gaševic; Lixiang Yan; Graham Baker; Andrew Murray; Danijela Gasevic – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Learner profiles detected from digital trace data are typically triangulated with survey data to explain those profiles based on learners' internal conditions (e.g., motivation). However, survey data are often analysed with limited consideration of the interconnected nature of learners' internal conditions. Objectives: Aiming to enable…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Networks, Profiles, Learning Processes
Bérénice Darnault – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book traces the motivational dynamics embedded within lifelong foreign language learning trajectories, examining the factors which generate and sustain motivation throughout a learner's life. Embracing a complexity approach, it views motivation as a long-term individual process that evolves along a narrative continuum, developing over the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Lifelong Learning, Learning Motivation
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Jones, M. Gail; Nieuwsma, Julianna; Rende, K.; Carrier, Sarah; Refvem, Emma; Delgado, Cesar; Grifenhagen, Jill; Huff, Pamela – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Awe is a complex emotion theorised to impact science learning and practice. In science education, awe has the potential to motivate explanation-seeking, promote conceptual change, and instill feelings of connectedness to the natural world. This exploratory study examined teachers' experiences with awe as well as their uses of awe in their science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Experience
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Jin, Sung-Hee; Im, Kowoon; Yoo, Mina; Roll, Ido; Seo, Kyoungwon – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is crucial for helping students attain high academic performance and achieve their learning objectives in the online learning context. However, learners often face challenges in properly applying SRL in online learning environments. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) applications have shown promise in…
Descriptors: College Students, Independent Study, Self Management, Electronic Learning
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Pariwat Imsa-ard – rEFLections, 2025
Recently, there has been a rapid growth in the number of studies related to emotions and positive psychology constructs in language teaching and learning. However, there is scant research in the context of low exposure to English. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the relationship between Thai EFL secondary school learners' L2 positive and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Noroozi, Omid; Pijeira-Díaz, Héctor J.; Sobocinski, Marta; Dindar, Muhterem; Järvelä, Sanna; Kirschner, Paul A. – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This systematic review on data modalities synthesises the research findings in terms of how to optimally use and combine such modalities when investigating cognitive, motivational, and emotional learning processes. ERIC, WoS, and ScienceDirect databases were searched with specific keywords and inclusion criteria for research on data modalities,…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Psychological Patterns, Learning Motivation, Research Methodology
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Jaeho Jeon – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Professionals within the field of language learning have predicted that chatbots would provide new opportunities for the teaching and learning of language. Despite the assumed benefits of utilizing chatbots in language classrooms, such as providing interactional chances or helping to create an anxiety-free atmosphere, little is known about…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Learning Analytics, Computer Software
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Ben-Eliyahu, Adar – Educational Psychologist, 2019
The aim of this article is to map the academic emotional learning cycle from a theoretical and practical perspective through the lens of self-regulated learning. Focusing on the learner, a further iteration of the emotional dimension of the integrated self-regulated learning model is articulated by considering within-individual components (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Patterns, Learning Processes
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Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This chapter is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of the results of the empirical investigation undertaken for the purpose of the present book. It concentrates on the outcomes of the in-depth analysis of the patterns of WTC, motivation, boredom and language anxiety, the relationships of these variables as well as the influences shaping…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Individual Differences, English (Second Language)
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Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This chapter discusses issues concerning the design and implementation of the research project dealing with the changes in the levels of willingness to communicate, motivation, boredom and language anxiety, their relationships and factors influencing them in the course of the participants' visits to the virtual world Second Life. [For the complete…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Individual Differences, Computer Simulation
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Jacobs, Christopher J.; Morgan, William J. – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2022
The construct of psychological flow bridges several areas of second language learning interest, including motivation, investment, self-efficacy, and autonomy. Flow, characterized by intense focus on an enjoyable activity that is at once challenging and accessible, creates conditions that have been linked to learning. Research interest in flow has…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Learning Motivation, Classroom Environment, Self Efficacy
Posey, Allison – ASCD, 2018
Research on the brain has shown that emotion plays a key role in learning, but how can educators apply that research in their day-to-day interactions with students? What are some teaching strategies that take advantage of what we know about the brain? "Engage the Brain" answers these questions with easy-to-understand explanations of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Psychological Patterns, Brain, Neurology
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