
You didn’t fall in love with French. You fell in love with the streak, and your brain knows the difference even when you don’t. This CSP pulls apart the psychology behind gamified language apps: the dopamine loops, the behaviorist roots, and the honest question hiding under all those green checkmarks — are you learning a language, or just learning the game?
What’s inside: Main article, Let’s Get Critical discussion, Fantastic Guest interview, EduStory short fiction, Language Focus, What Now? action steps, full quiz, and a vocabulary activity worksheet with crossword and word search.