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The present paper aimed to investigate the effectiveness of social emotional learning competencies - based - program in improving learning motivation and social emotional learning skills. To achieve the purposes of the paper, a program and two scales were developed by the two researchers. The sample consisted of 100 male and female students enrolled in the academic year 2015-2016. Divided into two groups: 50 students for an experimental group and 50 students for a control group. The pre- application of the tools of the study was done for both groups. The emotional learning competencies - based - program was taught to the experimental group only while the teaching control group using the normal methods. The results showed that there are statistically significant differences between the means of the scores of the students in the experimental group and their counterparts in the control group in the post application of testing of learning motivation scale and social emotional learning skills scale for the sake of the students in the experimental group. And learning motivation can be predicted through social emotional learning skills. (Published abstract)