Forum on Language Learning Motivation (Website)

The Forum on Language Learning Motivation (FOLLM) is a research group which is concerned with Psychology of Language Learning with a specific focus on Motivation and its ramifications across SLA and Language Education. This international forum is meant to be a hub for regular events where researchers with a similar interest can meet and share their own thoughts on current research output as well as disseminate their own work. We believe that good research is driven by practice and good practice is informed by empirical research. Therefore, we hope to bring together all those people who have experience and/or an interest in language teaching or learning practice and/or research. We aim to develop a network of ‘motivated’ people who wish to keep abreast of the latest leading-edge research in the field of motivational inquiry within English or any other language learning, teaching and research setting.

Since the pioneering work by Gardner and Lambert (1959) in Canada, work in the field of language learning motivation has proliferated, making it more obvious that motivation is a factor of language learning and teaching that merits close attention. More crucially, over the past few years, language motivation researchers have successfully organised a number of events to gather like-minded researchers and language practitioners to share views about researching, teaching and learning motivation. These include the conference Psychology of Language Learning (known as PLL) held at the University of Graz in June 2014, the PLL2 in 2016 at the University of Jyväskylä. Also, in August 2014, the first ever conference focussing on language learning motivation (International Conference on Motivational Dynamics and Second Language Acquisition) was held at the University of Nottingham.

In the same spirit as the above events, FOLLM aims to serve as a research hub which provides researchers and practitioners with opportunities to share views about the state-of-the-art research on language learning motivation. However, we aim to host regular events throughout the year in the form of lectures, half-day workshops and one-day conferences.

Events hosted by FOLLM (LINK)