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Download full textJiajing Li; Norman B. Mendoza; Ronnel B. King – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
Goals are central to understanding how students learn a second language. Much of the existing research on goals in the field of language learning has focused exclusively on achievement goals, particularly mastery and performance goals. However, exclusively focusing on achievement goals precludes language researchers from exploring other important…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
MacIntyre, Peter D.; Mercer, Sarah – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Positive psychology is a rapidly expanding subfield in psychology that has important implications for the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This paper introduces positive psychology to the study of language by describing its key tenets. The potential contributions of positive psychology are contextualized with reference to prior work,…
Descriptors: Psychology, Well Being, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Aronin, Larissa; Singleton, David – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The concept of affordances originating in Gibson's work (Gibson, 1977) is gaining ground in multilingualism studies (cf. Aronin and Singleton, 2010; Singleton and Aronin, 2007; Dewaele, 2010). Nevertheless, studies investigating affordances in respect of teaching, learning or using languages are still somewhat rare and tend to treat isolated…
Descriptors: Affordances, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Second Language Instruction
