In a systematic examination of scales commonly used in L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) research, Al-Hoorie et al. (2024) found discriminant validity problems. Raising jangle fallacy concerns, they argue that substantive research should be paused until validity issues are ironed out. However, validity at the measurement level is dependent on validity at the construct level. Replication attempts can fail when models are poorly theorized. To resolve problems at the measurement level, problems at the construct level need to be addressed.
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This research was conducted within the research programme Transdisciplinary Approachesto Learning, Acquisition, Multilingualism (TEAM) funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, grantnumber M23-0052. We gratefully acknowledge this support.