Even though the strategies have been recommended meaningfully, there is an
indication that there may be disagreement between teachers and students about the value
of some motivational strategies. In Raviv, Raviv and Reisel’s study (1990), teachers and
students were asked to respond to the Class Environment Scale (Moos & Trickett, 1974),
which contains nine dimensions. Half of the teachers and students evaluated the ideal
classroom, and the others evaluated the real classroom. The results indicated that the
perception between teachers and students concerning the dimensions are significantly
different. Another study by Banya and Cheng (1997) investigated the beliefs of teachers
and students on foreign language learning. The subjects were 23 teachers of English and
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224 college students in southern Taiwan who were studying English.