Arab Educational Information Network

This article aims at examining the numerous roles of technologies as motivational factors in learning a foreign language. In this context, the links and the interactions between these technical means such as Internet Services, online applications, video games or any communicational tools and the motivational aspects of learning a foreign language have been examined expansively through various approaches and numerous applications that help in learning a foreign language. Moreover, an accurate literature review that focuses on significant studies that have investigated the effective use of technology and its impact on motivating learners to learn a foreign language has been taken under consideration in order to check whether technology has an important impact on the students' motivation or not. Furthermore, the notion of motivation in acquiring and learning a foreign language and its context as well as technology has been taken into account by focusing on studies that have shed light on this interesting topic. (Published abstract)