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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Different Demotivators for Japanese Junior High and High School Learners
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Hamada, Yo – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
Motivation has been studied throughout the field of language acquisition for the past 20 years. Demotivation has also been researched in Japan at primarily the university and high school level. To provide a deeper understanding of demotivation for Japanese junior and senior high school learners, this study explores the following three questions.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Textbooks, Likert Scales, Foreign Countries
Demotivators for Japanese Teenagers
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Hamada, Yo – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2008
These two decades have seen a surge in interest in the study of motivation throughout the field of language acquisition. Several distinguished motivational theories have been established: self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985), goal-setting theories (Locke & Latham, 1990), attribution theory (Weiner, 1992), self-worth theory (Covington,…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, High School Students, Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning