Large language model-based chatbots can't effectively recognize users' motivation when they are hesitant about making healthy behavior changes, but they can support those who are committed to take ...

Language learning motivation encompasses the multifaceted drive that compels individuals to engage with a new language. It is shaped by both intrinsic interests—such as genuine curiosity and personal ...

If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you’re probably too late. That’s an opportunity largely reserved for children. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or ...

Vol. 101, No. 3, BEYOND GLOBAL ENGLISH: MOTIVATION TO LEARN LANGUAGES IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD (Fall 2017), pp. 483-500 (18 pages) With the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) as a framework, this ...

Back in August, Massively wrote a little post about Swedish research on MMOs and language learning. That article provoked me, a gamer and teacher of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), to ...

This study explored the impact of a vision intervention in a second language (L2) classroom. In addition to self-reported motivational variables, the study examined the intervention’s impact on L2 ...

Although Khelsilem didn't grow up speaking his traditional language, his passion to learn was always there. Thinking back, he recalls being on the bus in Vancouver and hearing different languages ...

As every second-language learner knows, Louisiana-born Armand “Mondo” Duplantis needed motivation to learn — in his case — ...