Calero López, InmaculadaRodríguez López, Beatriz María2025-07-312025-07-312021-08Calero López, I. and Rodríguez-López, B. (2021). How much do we know about l2 motivation in vocational education and training students. The International Journal of Adult, Community, and Professional Learning, 28.2 págs. 3-20. https://doi.org/10.18848/2328-6318/CGP/v28i02/31-482328-6296https://doi.org/10.18848/2328-6318/CGP/v28i02/31-48https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/29807This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Common Ground in "The International Journal of Adult, Community, and Professional Learning, 28.2 págs. 3-20", available at: https://doi.org/10.18848/2328-6318/CGP/v28i02/31-48 Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo publicado por Common Ground en "The International Journal of Adult, Community, and Professional Learning, 28.2 págs. 3-20", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.18848/2328-6318/CGP/v28i02/31-48Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs have included second-language proficiency in their curricula as a tool to facilitate students successful incorporation into the labor market. As the need to acquire a second language has increased steadily, the volume of research on motivation in learning foreign languages has also grown exponentially in the last few years, emphasizing its relevance and the multiple approaches and factors involved in the learning process. The present bibliometric study aims to provide an overview of the scientific research carried out during the last ten years in this field, focusing on VET level, and to shed light on some of the most relevant topics in the field. The relationship of L2 motivation with different variables such as gender, attitude toward the target language, learning context, methodology, and teachers role have been profusely studied, confirming that motivation is not affected by a single factor but by the interconnection of some of them. At the same time, results have proved a positive correlation between motivation, autonomous learning, and learning achievement. However, and despite the surge of interest in the study of motivation in learning foreign languages, further empirical research is needed, especially at the VET level.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess5801 Teoría y métodos educativosjournal articleMotivationLearningForeign LanguageL2Vocational Education and TrainingPost-Compulsory Education