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A Brief Introduction of A Newest L2 Motivational Construct: Directed Motivational Current Abstract: The Directed Motivational Current, which is proposed by Zoltán D?rnyei and Christine Muir, can be described as an intense motivational drive capable of both stimulating and supporting long-term behavior, such as learning a foreign language. Vision and goals are the critical central components within the construct. Many motivation theories such as dynamic systems theory, vision theory, future time perspective and especially the L2 Motivational Self System has explored the great power that creating effective vision can harness. In this paper, we first discuss the current understanding of vision and Directed Motivational Currents, then analyze how they employed to create effective motivational pathway in language leaning environment (D?rnyei﹠Muir, 2014). In the end, we discuss where the future research is necessary to develop. Keywords: Directed Motivational Current, L2 Motivational self system, vision, motivation Introduction Vision, can be defined as “the imitative representation of real or hypothetical events”(pham﹠Taylor,1999,p.250), occurring “when a representation of the type created during the initial phases of perception is present but the stimulus is not actually been perceived” (Kosslyn, Thompson,﹠Ganis,2006, p.4 ). The term has been used so widely in diverse area in the social sciences. In 1990, Van Der Helm classified seven types of vision, but he finally argued that the core meaning of the concept is largely uniform, capturing the future, the ideal and the desire for deliberate change. Within the context of possible language selves, vision can be viewed as the sensory experience of a future goal state, or in other words, a personalized goal that the learner has made his or her own by adding to it the imagined reality of the goal experience’(D?rnyei﹠Chan, 2013,pp.454-55). Actually, the brain has difficulty in distinguishing whether an event occurs