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Bianca Manuela Sandu; Mégane Lesuisse; Soraya García-Sánchez – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This article reports on the findings of a research study which has approached language learning motivation (LLM) following Ushioda's (2009) person-in-context relational view of L2 motivation, Consoli's life capital (2021, 2022), Dweck's mindset (2017) and Dörnyei's vision system (2009). Our study provides insights into how LLM research is key to…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students
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Giovanna Arenare – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This mixed-method study explores the motivational mindsets towards the learning of LOTEs of two groups of Italian preadolescents (aged 10-14) after Romance Intercomprehension (RIC) training in a school context. Reference is made to the notions of self-efficacy, the extrinsic/intrinsic spectrum and the emergence of a desired plurilingual identity.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
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Karimi, Mohammad Nabi; Nazari, Mostafa – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Despite the recognition of the importance of teachers' professional development, the exploration of teachers' Critical Incidents (CIs) as a type of professional development initiative has received insufficient attention in L2 teaching contexts. Motivated by the dearth of research in this area and building on complexity theory as its conceptual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers