Serena Baldini
Introduction
In a humanistic language learning approach, the learning-teaching process is centered around the student. It is therefore essential, for the teacher who guides the learning process, to consider a fundamental psychological and emotional dimension in the mechanisms of linguistic acquisition: motivation. Motivation or, more precisely, the motivational framework, is a complex and dynamic system that is formed and evolves thanks to the interaction of factors related both to the student’s subjective characteristics and to the specific coordinates of the learning context…