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 …

As Pit Corder famously put it some 40 years ago,'given motivation, it is inevitable that a
human being will learn a second language if he is exposed to the language data'[italics …

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 …

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many
of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second …

In 2005, I outlined the basis of a new approach to conceptualising second language (L2)
learning motivation within a 'self'framework (Dörnyei, 2005), calling the new theory the 'L2 …

Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary
to understand and construct language tests. This intensely practical book gives guidelines …

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 …

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason
why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

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 …