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 …

The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the
field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the …

In this second edition of the best-selling Second Language Research, Alison Mackey and
Sue Gass continue to guide students step-by-step through conducting the second language …

Second language (L2) anxiety has been the object of constant empirical and theoretical
attention for several decades. As a matter of both theoretical and practical interest, much of …

Abstract The Douglas Fir Group (2016) sought to articulate a transdisciplinary agenda for
SLA but said little about multilingualism specifically. Moreover, many multilinguals are under …

As a personality trait,'grit'has been defined as a combination of perseverance and passion
for long-term goals. Past research in social psychology has found grit as an important …

Multiple regression is a family of statistics used to investigate the relationship between a set
of predictors and a criterion (dependent) variable. This procedure is applicable in a variety of …

Researchers often make claims regarding the importance of predictor variables in multiple
regression analysis by comparing standardized regression coefficients (standardized beta …

Over the past decades, the application of Rasch measurement in language assessment has
gradually increased. In the present study, we coded 215 papers using Rasch measurement …

Despite its critical role for the development of the field, little is known about replication in
second language (L2) research. To better understand replication practice, we first provide a …