This article locates Norton's foundational work on identity and investment within the social
turn of applied linguistics. It discusses its historical impetus and theoretical anchors, and it …

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 …

Agency has attracted considerable attention, especially of late. Nevertheless, perceptions of
language learners as nonagentive persist. In this article the Douglas Fir Group's call for a …

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 …

The growing interest in identity and language education over the past two decades, coupled
with increased interest in digital technology and transnationalism, has resulted in a rich body …

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 …

The 'EMPATHICS'vision in this chapter heralds the arrival of positive psychology to the
language learning arena (see also MacIntyre & Mercer, 2014) and moves us toward a …

The possible benefits of digital games for language learning and teaching have received
increasing interest in recent years. Games are said, amongst others, to be motivating, to …

In this paper I propose an agenda for researching language learning motivation 'through a
small lens', to counteract our tendency in the second language (L2) motivation field to …