Psychological and Linguistic Research on Motivation

I Psychological Research on Motivation1.1Psychological perspectives on motivationIt is an urgent task for applied linguists to employthe essential and useful parts frompsychological theoriesof motivation andtheir findings.Concerning psychological approach…

Psychological and Linguistic Research on Motivation

Any second language learning (L2) theories would regard the role of motivation as a key in the process of language learning. It is agreed that success or failure in L2 learning mainly relies on the extent to which a learner is motivated. Numerous researches and experiments in L2 learning have proved that motivation is vital to successful learning. Up to the present, we are still in great need of a deep and further understanding as to what motivation is and how important it really is.