Language Learning Motivation
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Virtual Agent for Real-Time Motivational Interviewing by Integrating Adaptive Nonverbal Behavior and Language Models
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2025
We present an open-source virtual agent platform for conducting real-time motivational interviews, combining state-of-the-art language and diffusion models to adapt to users' behavior and profile. Utilizing the Greta 2.0 platform, it supports various topics, including nutrition and sport-focused interventions, and offers a flexible, validated tool for enhancing digital therapeutic interactions.
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Secondary Motives: Power Motivation and Achievement Motivation
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2025
Power motivation and achievement motivation are two essential social motives identified by psychologist David McClelland. These motives influence behavior in various personal and professional contexts, shaping how individuals interact with others and pursue their goals. Power motivation is characterized by the desire to influence, control, or have an impact on others. It is shaped by an individual's experiences, social environment, and cultural context. People with high power motivation are...
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Secondary Motives: Affiliation Motivation and Aggression Motivation
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2025
Affiliation motivation is the intrinsic desire to connect with others and belong to a social group, which plays a crucial role in forming and maintaining personal relationships. This type of motivation is essential for psychological well-being, as it provides individuals with a sense of community and support. An example of this is a student who joins a study group in order to feel a sense of connection. People with high affiliation motivation actively seek social approval, take satisfaction in...
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Are You Smart or Hardworking? How Praise Influences Children's Motivation
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Imagine teaching two children how to skate. It is a hard task for both of them, and they fall down frequently. After falling down for the first time, one child says that skating is too hard and wants to go home. The other child seems to enjoy the challenge and eagerly gets back up after falling down each time. Why do the children have such different attitudes about the same task? One reason may be that they...
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Language: The N400 in Semantic Incongruity
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Sarah I. Gimbel and Jonas T. Kaplan— University of Southern California Understanding language is one of the most complex cognitive tasks that humans are capable of. Given the incredible amount of possible choices when combining individual words to form meaning in sentences, it is crucial that the brain is able to identify when words form coherent combinations and when an anomaly appears that undermines meaning. Extensive research has shown that certain scalp-recorded...
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Goal setting directs effort by giving learners a clearer purpose for practice and a basis for judging progress. When goals remain meaningful, they can support continued engagement and persistence, especially during challenging experiences. In behavioral research, examining learners’ goals helps explain why individuals may invest different amounts of effort in similar language-learning situations.
Self-efficacy, or a learner’s belief in their ability to succeed, affects how they respond to difficulty. Stronger perceived capability can support continued effort, whereas challenges may reduce engagement when learners doubt their ability to make progress. This makes self-efficacy an important behavioral factor when explaining persistence and reactions to setbacks.
Feedback can shape motivation by influencing how learners interpret their progress and challenges. Motivation may also change when learners’ experiences or environments change, because personal goals, perceived value, and social conditions are not fixed. Tracking these shifts helps explain why engagement can increase or decline over time rather than remain constant.
Intrinsic motivation comes from personal interest, practical motivation from perceived usefulness or need, and social motivation from the desire for connection with others. These motives can encourage language-learning effort through different pathways, yet they may coexist in one learner. Distinguishing them helps educators and researchers interpret why learners begin or continue practicing.
Educators can use motivation research to create supportive instruction that connects learning with students’ goals, perceived value, self-efficacy, and responses to feedback. Attention to these factors may help sustain engagement and persistence rather than focusing only on immediate performance. The approach is relevant when designing instruction for learners with different reasons for studying a language.
Researchers can examine how personal, social, and goal-oriented factors relate to observable patterns such as engagement, persistence, and responses to challenges. This behavioral perspective helps explain differences among learners and how motivation changes across experiences and environments. Findings can also inform strategies that encourage continued practice and support the development of communicative competence.