Implications for Educators and Researchers

Abstract

The final chapter considers the implications of the findings of this study and the examination of the relevant existing literature for both educators and researchers in the field. It begins by exploring how educators can encourage language learners to develop positive but realistic FL self-concepts. The potential implications and further questions for research into the self-concept in the domain of FLL are then discussed. Finally, the chapter concludes with some personal reflections on the experience of having undertaken this programme of research and having written this book, in particular the awareness it brought of the complexity surrounding language learner psychology.