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 …

This study attempts to synthesise the scholarship on second language (L2) motivation and
systematically examines the theoretical approaches, methods, research instruments, and …

Individual interest and self‐regulation are two pillars of self‐directed learning. Despite
empirical evidence on the interaction between the two with respect to academic …

This article reports the first meta-analysis of the L2 motivational self system (Dörnyei, 2005,
2009). A total of 32 research reports, involving 39 unique samplesand 32,078 language …

Profound changes in the literacy practices of young people in the early part of this century
mean that many are encountering and using English in their personal lives while studying …

The present study proposed and tested a revision of the self-guides outlined in the L2
motivational self system (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009). Covering the previous conceptualization and …

Concerns have recently been raised about the validity of scales used in the L2 motivational
self system tradition, particularly in relation to sufficient discriminant validity among some of …

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

This chapter offers an overview of the evolving understanding of the construct of L2
motivation since the 1990s. The starting date marks a time when a new generation of …

Most students take language courses at university, but only a fraction go beyond the
introductory and intermediate levels despite the fact that continued study is likely necessary …