With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity.

The Contributors 1.Motivation, language identities and the l 2 self: A theoretical overview - Ema Ushioda and Zoltan Dornyei 2.The l 2 Motivational Self System - Zoltan Dornyei 3.The baby, the bathwater and the future of language learning motivation research - Peter D. MacIntyre, Sean P. MacKinnon and Richard Clement 4.The l 2 Motivational Self System among Japanese, Chinese and Iranian learners of English: A comparative study - Tatsuya Taguchi, Michael Magid and Mostafa Papi 5.Learning experiences, selves and motivated learning behaviour: A comparative analysis of structural models for Hungarian secondary and university learners of English - Kata Csizer and Judit Kormos 6.Self and identity in l 2 motivation in Japan: The ideal l 2 self and Japanese learners of English - Stephen Ryan 7.International posture and the ideal l 2 self in the Japanese EFL context - Tomoko Yashima 8.Motivation and vision: The relation between the ideal l 2 self, imagination and visual style - Abdullah S. Al-Shehri 9.Links between ethnolinguistic affiliation, self-related motivation and second language fluency: Are they mediated by psycholinguistic variables? - Norman Segalowitz, Elizabeth Gatbonton and Pavel Trofimovich 10.Toward the development of a scale to assess possible selves as a source of language learning motivation - Peter D. MacIntyre, Sean P. MacKinnon, and Richard Clement 11.A person-in-context relational view of emergent motivation, self and identity - Ema Ushioda 12.Situating the l 2 self: Two Indonesian school learners of English - Martin Lamb 13.Imagined identity and the l 2 self in the French Foreign Legion - Zachary Lyons 14.The sociocultural interface between ideal self and ought-to self: A case study of two Korean students' ESL motivation - Tae-Young Kim 15.The internalisation of language learning into the self and social identity - Kimberly A. Noels 16.Possible selves in language teacher development - Magdalena Kubanyiova 17.Identity and self in e-language teaching - Cynthia White and Alex Ding 18.Motivation, language identities and the l 2 self: Future research directions - Zoltan Dornyei and Ema UshiodaAppendices of Research Instruments