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Eric M. Anderman; Yue Sheng; Wonjoon Cha – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Students' valuing of academic content impacts their engagement in learning and plays a pivotal role in shaping their future academic and career choices. Fortunately, practicing educators can integrate many readily applicable strategies into teaching to enhance students' valuing of academic content. Drawing from expectancy-value theory, Eric M.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
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Hiromi Nishioka – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
With rapid globalization, it is an urgent task for universities in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context to provide practical English education. Particularly, one that enables students to participate in the global society as well as the global business market. The challenge for these universities is to achieve this goal with limited class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Robinson, Kristy A. – Educational Psychologist, 2023
The study of classroom processes that shape students' motivational beliefs, although fruitful, has suffered from a lack of conceptual clarity in terminology, definitions, distinctions, and roles of these important processes. Synthesizing extant research and major theoretical perspectives on achievement motivation, I propose Motivational Climate…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Classroom Environment, Definitions, Learning Motivation
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Urhahne, Detlef; Wijnia, Lisette – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Several major theories have been established in research on motivation in education to describe, explain, and predict the direction, initiation, intensity, and persistence of learning behaviors. The most commonly cited theories of academic motivation include expectancy-value theory, social cognitive theory, self-determination theory, interest…
Descriptors: Education, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Teacher Motivation
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Csizér, Kata; Illés, Éva – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
Second language (L2) motivation research has been thriving for the past decades by emphasizing L2 motivation theories and describing the motivated learner, while relatively few studies have dealt with how to motivate students in a systematic way. Approaches in these studies either included investigations into the role of different motivational…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Multilingualism
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Rakes, Christopher R.; Kirvan, Rebecca J.; Witkowski, Ashley – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2020
Teachers are constantly looking for new ways to make mathematical procedures such as radical simplification meaningful for students. In classes, teachers discovered what researchers have long known, that students who only memorize a set of steps get confused when their steps do not match a new problem or scenario perfectly. The area and side…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Common Core State Standards, Algebra
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Muir, Christine; Gümüs, Özge – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Directed motivational currents (DMCs) encapsulate a unique motivational phenomenon. DMCs are highly positive, potent motivational experiences which can carry individuals or groups forwards to achieving valued goals at both a remarkable rate, and with a perceived feeling of seemingly 'effortless effort'. Although research into DMCs began under a…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Theories
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Davis, Alison – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2019
The purpose of this article is to explore the concept of student agency when applied to learning across "The New Zealand Curriculum" (Ministry of Education, 2007). To explore agency the author presents and describes a range of teaching pedagogies that are based on principles of intrinsic motivation. The author describes, with examples,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Personal Autonomy, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Angelo, Thomas A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter applies John Keller's MVP model and, specifically, adapts the ARCS-V components of that model--defined and described in Chapter 1 of this issue of "New Directions for Teaching and Learning"--as a frame for exploring practical, research-based assessment, and feedback strategies and tools teachers can use to help students…
Descriptors: Models, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Guo, Tieyuan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2015
In this chapter, the focus is on understanding the unique learning motivations shared by contemporary students in Confucian heritage cultures.
Descriptors: Confucianism, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Asian Culture
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Avi Kaplan; Joanna K. Garner; Benjamin Brock – Advances in Motivation and Achievement, 2019
Current motivation theory and research face serious theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges. One central challenge is the fact that research has focused mainly on motivation for traditional achievement tasks such as graded assignments and normative educational trajectories. Arguably, current motivation theory and research may be…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation, Self Concept
Terrell, Shelly – Educational Horizons, 2015
Laughing with students can help them connect on a deeper level with the teacher and the learning. This article offers the following four strategies to incorporate humor into teaching: (1) Integrate humorous bits to boost engagement; (2) Choose humorous materials; (3) Create interest with humorous web tools and apps; and (4) Teach with silly…
Descriptors: Humor, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Student Motivation
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Muñoz-Restrepo, Ana; Ramirez, Marta; Gaviria, Sandra – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
Motivation is one of the most important factors in the enjoyment and success in learning any subject, especially a foreign language. Many students approach the learning of a language based on academic mandates, family impositions, job requirements, and so on. These non-intrinsic motivations make learning a more difficult, frustrating, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Petrucco, Corrado – Research on Education and Media, 2018
The academic world initially regarded Wikipedia with misgivings for a number of reasons, including the uncertainty concerning the reliability of its content, its anonymous authorship and the fact that students often use it as an easy way to cut and paste material for their coursework. In recent years, however, university instructors' perception of…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies, Teaching Methods
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Guay, Frédéric – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Students' higher level of motivation is not based solely on intrapersonal factors as innate characteristics, but also on contexts in which students are supposed to develop their competencies. Thus, the cultural context is expected to shape motivation. Values and beliefs shared by a cultural group will affect students' motivation to learn and…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Student Motivation, Values, Beliefs
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