Books of Knowledge

Archive for the ‘Motivational’ Category

With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity…. More >>
Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

This volume includes papers presented at a colloquium on second language motivation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics…. More >>
Motivation and second language acquisition

“Differentiating Textbooks” is the next logical and practical step toward improving your students’ ability to read, comprehend, and retain what they are taught in content-area textbooks. Find out how to motivate your students as they are confronted with text which is generally written in less-than-engaging expository style. “Differentiating Textbooks” shows you how to teach the child, not the textbook, and as with differentiated instruction, you will soon discover t… More >>
Differentiating Textbooks: Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension & Motivation

Life is indeed uncertain; it’s an odyssey subject to natural, social, and economic pressures, which influence its course. However, it’s the inner fire and drive in each individual that ultimately govern and determine the whole course of each human life. If an individual’s motivation is sufficiently strong, it will weather through the ever-changing environment until an opportunity opens, which can allow one’s desires to be fulfilled. This is the story of a… More >>
Motivation and Opportunity: An Immigrant’s Quest for Knowledge from Mindanao to the Leading Edge of Science and Technology

In Tools for Teaching, Dr. Jones describes the skills by which exceptional teachers make the classroom a place of success and enjoyment for both themselves and their students. Tools for Teaching integrates the management of discipline, instruction and motivation into a system that allows you to reduce the stress of teaching by preventing most management headaches. Dr. Jones helps you reduce student disruptions, backtalk, helpless handraising and dawdling while helpi… More >>
Fred Jones Tools for Teaching: Discipline, Instruction, Motivation

Missed deadlines, absenteeism, and poor performance are symptoms of the kind of employee discouragement that can derail change efforts, cause teams to fail, and create record-breaking turnover. They are a clear signal that focusing on performance is not enough. Managers also must continually read the gauge on employee motivation in order to get to the heart of problems, empower employees to find solutions, and stay on the road to success. Motivation Managem… More >>
Motivation Management: Fueling Performace by Discovering What People Believe About Themselves and Their Organizations

In the past two decades, an approach to the study of motivation has emerged that focuses on specific cognitive and affective mediators of behavior, in contrast to more general traits or motives. This “social-cognitive” approach grants goal-oriented motivation its own role in shaping cognition, emotion and behavior, rather than reducing goal-directed behavior to mere information processing or to an enactment of a personality type. This book adds a developmental per… More >>
Motivation and Self-Regulation across the Life Span