A REVIEW OF HISTORY OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING MOTIVATION THEORIES

The motivation plays a very important role in the successful of language learning process. Fully knowing the existing and existed theories in order of time can help learner and teacher deeply understand the evolution of motivations. By paying attention to every aspect which mentioned in the previous research can affect learning process, teachers and learners can choose the most suitable way to motivate their students or themselves to improve the learning process. This review is written in goal of contributing to the development of language learning and teaching through providing the information of the evolution of language learning motivation theories