In addressing the recent special issue in Frontiers in Psychology, namely “Positive
Psychology in Foreign and Second Language Education: Approaches and Applications,” …

The present contribution offers an overview of a new area of research in the field of foreign
language acquisition, which was triggered by the introduction of Positive Psychology (PP) …

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 …

The study of L2 motivation has seen an unprecedented boom during the past decade, with
the number of published studies in the area far exceeding not only the amount of work done …

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 …

The theoretical paradigms of second language (L2) learning motivation developed over the
past 25 years have been largely based on the study of English as a target language, which …

This special issue takes a critical look at a largely uncharted area of language learning
motivation: the motivation to learn languages other than English (LOTEs) in an era of …

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 …

Abstract The L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) has strongly contributed to current
understandings about the conceptualization of language motivation and the …

Students' personal, emotional, and psychological traits are perceived to be highly influential
in their academic engagement; therefore, many investigations have been conducted into the …