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 …

Since it was first established in the 1970s the Applied Linguistics and Language Study
series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication …

The Noticing Hypothesis–an hypothesis that input does not become intake for language
learning unless it is noticed, that is, consciously registered (Schmidt, 1990, 2001)–has been …

This article provides a comprehensive, updated, and critical approximation to the sizeable
literature which has been produced on the increasingly acknowledged European approach …

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice Bill Grabe Table of
Contents Preface Section I: Foundations of Reading Comprehension 1. The Nature of …

Offering a historical and empirical account, this book provides a comprehensive overview of
the socio-educational model of second language acquisition. This approach to …

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 …

Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and
Processing is the first guide in the second language field devoted to the question of how to …

The initial impetus for this investigation was a discussion between the two authors about
comments and criticisms in the literature concerning the role of attitudes and motivation in …

As an initial step in extending Deci and Ryan'(1985) self‐determination theory to the
investigation of motivation in second language (L2) learning, the first goal of our study was …