Psycholinguistic and motivational approaches to learning several languages

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of identifying the learning and education needs of adults, primarily non-formal education and multilingual education. Different concepts and models are analyzed to identify the learning and educa-tion needs of adults. A concept is grounded and a methodology is developed in this regard. The factors that generate the learning and education needs of adults are described in detail: external factors – national educational policies, institutional educational policies, educational reform projects, etc.; internal factors – the need for compensation, re-capitulation, complementary knowledge, the need for retraining, the need to realize one’s own interests and options, the need to capitalize on free time, etc. At the same time, the place of foreign languages - whether world languages or heritage languages - within the education system is extremely complex Since there are many deficiencies in regard to the training of teachers for teaching these languages, teaching methods of the languages, updated study materials that match the context of language learning, assessment methods