What is it about?
From among the many theory of motivation that exist in cognitive psychology, four seem particularly useful for explaining motivation to learn a foreign language. This article explores what they explain and how they can be put to use.
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Why is it important?
This article provided a fresh look at the construct of motivation in language learning at a period before Dörnyei's fundamental work on the subject. It also provided a French-language publication on the subject.
Perspectives
As my first academic publication, this article is both naive and forward-looking. Several years later Raby and Narcy-Combes (2009, Lidil) presented the same theories as fundamental for study in this area.
Dr Denyze Toffoli
Universite Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
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This page is a summary of: De la théorie à la pratique : appliquer des modèles cognitifs de la motivation dans un centre de langues, ASp, November 2003, OpenEdition,
DOI: 10.4000/asp.1198.
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