Kadidja Koné, Ph.D., is a teacher of English as a foreign language at Ecole Normale d’Enseignement Technique et Professionnel. She was a Fulbright scholar at Minnesota State University, Mankato where she graduated with an MA in English (TESOL emphasis) in 2015. Her research interests include second language assessment, English teaching methods, and English learners’ motivation and its related concept of Directed Motivational Currents.