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Motivation is an important aspect of any human endeavour. It is generally believed that, if motivated, individuals will invest more time, energy, and persistence to reach their goals (Atkinson & Raynor, 1974; Elliot, 2008). It is also a common sense notion among people that one has to be motivated in order to achieve goals, something which has been extensively ratified by a voluminous bulk of research in different disciplines (De Volder & Lens, 1982; Dweck, 1985; Elliot, 2008).
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Zarrinabadi, N., Ketabi, S., Tavakoli, M. (2019). Introduction. In: Directed Motivational Currents in L2. Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05472-4_1
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