to enrich our understanding of the attitudinal/motivational basis of foreign language learning at junior high school level, this study investigated the students’ status of l2 motivation, the relationship between motivational factors, and the possibility of predicting their motivated learning behavior in light of dörnyei’s (2005, 2009) theory of l2 motivational self system. to this end, 1462 jun...

To enrich our understanding of the attitudinal/motivational basis of foreign language learning at junior high school level, this study investigated the students’ status of L2 motivation, the relationship between motivational factors, and the possibility of predicting their motivated learning behavior in light of Dörnyei’s (2005, 2009) theory of L2 Motivational Self System. To this end, 1462 jun...

In Dörnyei’s (2009a) theorizing, motivation is conceptualized to be generated by discomfort associated with the learner’s experience of a discrepancy between their current L2 self, and their ideal L2 self. However, in the L2 Motivational Self System, this discrepancy is not operationalized. A questionnaire containing measures of current L2 selves was administered to two cohorts of students lear...

L2 motivation research has a longstanding monolingual bias. Recently, however, the motivational systems of a multilingual’s different languages have been conceptualized as constituting a multilingual motivational system, and it has been suggested that interactions between the ideal Lx self and the ideal Ly self can lead to the emergence of an ideal multilingual self. While the notion of an idea...

Recent studies elaborating on the L2 learning experience component of Motivational Self System (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009), especially through a narrative identity perspective, mark new direction in motivation research. This paper extends this work by exploring connection between and ideal self components. Emerging from different theoretical origins, these components have proved difficult to reconcil...

Theoretical basis of this paper is the heuristic L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS). The research aims to determine degree which ideal self can be regarded as a significant factor with regards its power make difference in students’ actual motivated behaviour communication. sample consists 396 students. predictor variable. Willingness communicate and obtained grades are criterion variables. Gen...