چکیده (انگلیسی):

Motivation as a determiner of failure and success plays a crucial role in second language learning process.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the Iranian EFL teachers’ perception of motivational strategies.
This study was conducted to identify and develop more effective implementation of motivational strategies. To
accomplish the purpose of the study, 160 teachers of English in Iran were asked to evaluate a list of motivational
strategies in order to specify the most important and the most frequent motivational strategies, and also to investigate
a possible relationship between the use of motivational strategies and teachers’ experience. The results of the study
indicated that the use of motivational strategies is somehow culture-dependent; some motivational strategies were
found to be transferable to other cultural contexts, and some were found to be culture-dependent. Moreover, the
results revealed that the years of teachers’ experience could affect the use of motivational strategies to some extent