Motivation is recognized as a vital component in successful second language learning, and
has been the subject of intensive research in recent decades. This review focuses on a …

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success–and therefore crucial for the
language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and …

Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the
analysis of various characteristics within individuals towards a greater consideration of …

This study has aimed to investigate language learners' emotional experiences through the
lens of L2 future self-guides. To that end, the L2 motivational self system was chosen as the …

Recently, situated willingness to communicate (WTC) has received increasing research
attention in addition to traditional quantitative studies of trait-like WTC. This article is an …

This study examined the motivation to learn English of Indonesian junior high school pupils,
13–14 years of age, in three distinct contexts: a metropolitan city, a provincial town, and a …

This study examined the under-researched relationship between informal digital learning of
English (IDLE) activities (receptive IDLE activities and productive IDLE activities), affective …

Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and
Processing is the first guide in the second language field devoted to the question of how to …

We tested a theoretical model that integrated regulatory focus, second language (L2) self‐
guides, anxiety and enjoyment, eager and vigilant L2 use, and L2 achievement. We …

The present study takes the initiative to test a theoretical model that subsumes the ideal L2
self, the ought-to L2 self, and the L2 learning experience in Dörnyei's (2005, 2009) L2 …