The Effects of Teachers' Motivational Strategies on Learners' Motivation: A Controlled Investigation of Second Language Acquisition

Language Learning

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-62

  Moskovsky, Christo ^a   Alrabai, Fakieh ^b   Paolini, Stefania ^a   Ratcheva, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

EFL; Foreign language motivation; Language teaching; Teacher strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873747280     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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