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 …

To further understand the role of individual differences in second language (L2) writing, this
study investigated how motivation and emotions influence L2 writing achievement. More …

This interdisciplinary research examines how Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE)
and the L2 Motivational Self System (consisting of the ideal L2 self and the ought‐to L2 self) …

This study explores the relationship between the L2 Motivational Self System—namely, the
ideal L2 self and the ought-to L2 self—and L2 Willingness to Communicate (L2 WTC) in the …

This study is a bibliometric and text network analysis of the literature on the L2 motivational
self system theory (L2MSS) from 2005 to 2021. A total of 313 articles were analysed …

Abstract Second language (L2) writers' motivation and emotion is a flourishing area in L2
writing education research; however, there is a dearth of literature on L2 writers' motivational …

Chinese has been the fastest growing modern foreign language in African societies in the
last decade, due largely to the perceived rise of China as a global superpower and its recent …

Over the past few years, the world's attention has been focused on gaming systems and their
application in education through gamification, incorporating game features into learning …

This book syntheses cutting-edge research on the role of individual differences (IDs) in the
field of SLA and in computer assisted language learning. It also outlines the theoretical and …

This study investigated the relationship between students' ideal L2 writing selves,
enjoyment, writing strategy use, and their final L2 integrated writing (IW) performance under …