Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Motivation, Language Identities and the L2 Self: A Theoretical Overview -- 2. The L2 Motivational Self System -- 3. The Baby, the Bathwater, and the Future of Language Learning Motivation Research -- 4. The L2 Motivational Self System among Japanese, Chinese and Iranian Learners of English: A Comparative Study -- 5. Learning Experiences, Selves and Motivated Learning Behaviour: A Comparative Analysis of Structural Models for Hungarian Secondary and University Learners of English -- 6. Self and Identity in L2 Motivation in Japan: The Ideal L2 Self and Japanese Learners of English -- 7. International Posture and the Ideal L2 Self in the Japanese EFL Context -- 8. Motivation and Vision: The Relation Between the Ideal L2 Self, Imagination and Visual Style -- 9. Links between Ethnolinguistic Affiliation, Self-related Motivation and Second Language Fluency: Are They Mediated by Psycholinguistic Variables? -- 10. Toward the Development of a Scale to Assess Possible Selves as a Source of Language Learning Motivation -- 11. A Person-in-Context Relational View of Emergent Motivation, Self and Identity -- 12. Situating the L2 Self: Two Indonesian School Learners of English -- 13. Imagined Identity and the L2 Self in the French Foreign Legion -- 14. The Sociocultural Interface between Ideal Self and Ought-to Self: A Case Study of Two Korean Students' ESL Motivation -- 15. The Internalisation of Language Learning into the Self and Social Identity -- 16. Possible Selves in Language Teacher Development -- 17. Identity and Self in E-language Teaching -- 18. Motivation, Language Identities and the L2 Self: Future Research Directions -- Author Index -- Subject Index