The Effectiveness of Teaching Self-Talk Skills and Teaching Meta-Cognitive Skills on Learning Motivation Strategies of Students in Tehran Shahid Beheshiti University

Background: students have an important role in the future of the country and dealing with the issues related with them is of great importance. Accordingly, the purpose of the present research is to investigate the effectiveness of teaching self-talk skills and teaching meta-cognitive skills on learning motivation strategies of students. Objective: the design of the present research is a quasi-experimental one with a pre-test and posttest accompanied with a control group. The statistical population of the research consists of all the students in ShahidBeheshti University educating in 2012-2013 school year. The sampling method was cluster random sampling. Finally the number of 60 students of faculty of engineering was selected as the samples, which were put into two groups of experimental and control. In order to collect the data the motivational strategies for learning questionnaire was used. The data was analyzed using ANOVA and Independent T-test in SPSS software. Results: based on the investigations, teaching self-talk and meta-cognitive skills have impact on learning motivation strategies of students and increase them. Conclusion: regarding the fact that motivation is the general factor in producing behavior, it is important to pay attention to the factor that lead to the increase of motivation in the person.