Abstract
The chapter focuses on motivation and multilingualism in South Africa. The chapter approaches the issue of motivation from a context where individual and societal multilingualism is pervasive, and where languages are added in school and naturalistic settings. There are very few empirical studies from these types of contexts, and the chapter contributes new insights about motivation. The main finding from the survey study is that the motivation to acquire and learn additional languages in this context is influenced by the environment and the conventions about the use of specific sets of languages in specific domains. The main finding from the interview study is that the desire to foster meaningful relationships in a linguistically complex setting drives the motivation to add and learn additional languages. These findings point to the importance of the context of language acquisition and learning. Future research should explore the explanatory power of motivation constructs across different multilingual contexts.
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