The impact of self-concept on language learning was edited by Kata Csizér and Michael Magid. The editors have done a magnificent job in pulling together an excellent resource book that includes all major theories and directions in the field of SLA motivation. This compendium updates the volume entitled Motivation, language identity and the L2 self, edited by Zoltán Dörnyei and Ema Ushioda (2009), in which Dörnyei presented the L2 Motivational Self System. The present volume expands on that by further contributing, theoretically and empirically, to this line of research. Thus, this anthology addresses a field of research that has inevitably become a mainstay in SLA, due to the weight that self-concept theories and identity-related issues have gained within this field of inquiry, and in educational
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