The "Focus on Basics" serial concerns adult Learning and literacy. The eight short articles in this theme issue are all devoted to the topic of "learner motivation": (1) "Power, Literacy, and Motivation" (Greg Hart); (2) "The First Three Weeks: A Critical Time for Motivation" (B. Allan Quigley); (3) "Build Motivation by Building Learner Participation" (Barbara Garner); (4) "Staying in a Literacy Program" (Archie Willard); (5) "Stopping Out, Not Dropping Out" (Alisa Belzer); (6) "Where Attendance Is Not a Problem" (Moira Lucey); (7) "Getting into Groups" (Michael Pritza); and (8) "Focus on Research: NCSALL (National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy)'s Learner Motivation Study." Contains a list of 14 resources and NCSALL's website address. (KC)