Researching Language Learning Motivation

2022-01-27
Researching Language Learning Motivation

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  • Author: Ali H. Al-Hoorie
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350166898
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

One of the most active areas in the field of second language acquisition, language learning motivation is a burgeoning area of research. Yet the plethora of new ideas and research directions can be confusing for newcomers to the discipline to navigate. Offering concise, bite-size overviews of key contemporary research concepts and directions, this book provides an invaluable guide to the contemporary state of the field. Making the discussion of key topics accessible to a wider audience, each chapter is written by a leading expert and reflects on cutting-edge research issues. From well-established concepts, such as engagement and learning goals, to emerging ideas, including contagion and plurilingualism, this book provides easy to understand overviews and analysis of key contemporary themes. Helping readers understand a field which can appear highly technical and overwhelming, Researching Language Learning Motivation provides valuable insights, perspectives and practical applications.

Teaching and Researching Motivation

2021-04-21
Teaching and Researching Motivation

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  • Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 135100672X
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 207

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success – and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and Researching Motivation reflects the dramatic changes in the field of motivation research. With an increased emphasis on dynamic perspectives on motivation and its relations with other individual, social and contextual factors, this book offers ways in which advances in the field can be put to practical use in the classroom and in research. Key new features and material: exploration of the motivation to learn languages other than English (LOTEs); principles for designing L2 motivational studies; discussion of emerging areas of research, including unconscious motivation and language learning mindsets. Providing a clear and comprehensive theory-driven account of motivation, Teaching and Researching Motivation examines how theoretical insights can be used in everyday teaching practice. The final section provides a range of useful resources, including relevant websites, key reference works and an online repository of tools and instruments for researching language learning motivation. Fully revised by pre-eminent researchers in this field, Zoltán Dörnyei and Ema Ushioda, this is an invaluable resource for teachers and researchers alike.

Language Learning Motivation

2020-07-13
Language Learning Motivation

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  • Author: Ema Ushioda
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0194418820
  • Category : Study Aids
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 219

In this thought-provoking book, Ema Ushioda asks why we research language learning motivation, whose interests the research serves, and who ultimately benefits. Examining the major theoretical and research developments in this vibrant field from its origins to the present day, the author interrogates the goals and values driving academic inquiry, and argues for a more socially conscious and socially responsive orientation to researching language learning motivation. The book challenges this research field to contribute to critical movements in applied linguistics to address globally and locally relevant societal issues where language and motivation matter. “Ema Ushioda’s compelling, authoritative and timely book re-writes the story of L2 motivation research through the ethical lens. Her probing reflection is not meant to soothe but to ask difficult questions about why we research and for whom. It is impossible to imagine future L2 motivation scholarship that does not treat them seriously.” Maggie Kubanyiova, Professor of Language Education, University of Leeds Ema Ushioda is a Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick Oxford Applied Linguistics Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen-Freeman

The Palgrave Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning

2020-01-11
The Palgrave Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning

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  • Author: Martin Lamb
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030283801
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 704

This handbook offers an authoritative, one-stop reference work for the dynamic and expanding field of language learning motivation. The 32 chapters have been specially commissioned from the field’s most influential researchers and writers. Together they present a compelling picture of the motivations people have for learning languages, the diverse ways we can research motivation, and the implications for promoting and sustaining learners’ motivation. The first section outlines the main theoretical approaches to language learning motivation; the next section presents ways in which motivation theory has been applied in practice; the third section showcases examples of motivation research in particular contexts and with particular types of language learners; and the final section describes the exciting directions that contemporary research is taking, promising important new insights for academics and practitioners alike.

Teaching and Researching Motivation

2001
Teaching and Researching Motivation

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  • Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
  • Publisher: Pearson Education
  • ISBN: 9780582382381
  • Category : Language and languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

Success in learning a language largely depends on motivation. But what is motivation? How can it be increased? How can it be assessed? This text summarises the various facets of motivation and examines how theory can help teachers in practice.

Researching Language Learning Motivation

2022
Researching Language Learning Motivation

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  • Author: Ali H. Al-Hoorie
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781350166912
  • Category : Electronic books
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

"One of the most active areas in the field of second language acquisition, language learning motivation is a burgeoning area of research. Yet the plethora of new ideas and research directions can be confusing for newcomers to the discipline to navigate. Offering concise, bite-size overviews of key contemporary research concepts and directions, this book provides an invaluable guide to the contemporary state of the field. Making the discussion of key topics accessible to a wider audience, each chapter is written by a leading expert and reflects on cutting-edge research issues. From well-established concepts, such as engagement and learning goals, to emerging ideas, including contagion and plurilingualism, this book provides easy to understand overviews and analysis of key contemporary themes. Helping readers understand a field which can appear highly technical and overwhelming, Researching Language Learning Motivation provides valuable insights, perspectives and practical applications"--

Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning

2014-10-14
Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning

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  • Author: Zoltán Dörnyei
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783092580
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 393

This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and empirical research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The contributors include some of the most well-established scholars from three continents, all addressing the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as continuously changing and evolving rather than as a fixed learner trait. The data-based studies also provide useful research models and templates for graduate students and scholars in the fields of applied linguistics and SLA who are interested in engaging with the intriguing area of examining language learning in a dynamic vein.

Psychology for Language Learning

2012-07-24
Psychology for Language Learning

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  • Author: S. Mercer
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137032820
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 302

Offering a timely snapshot of current theory and research in the field of psychology in foreign language learning, this book is accessible to both specialists and non-specialists. Each chapter focuses on a different psychological construct and provides an overview of current thinking in the area drawing on insights from educational psychology.

Language Learning Motivation in a Multilingual Chinese Context

2022-07-13
Language Learning Motivation in a Multilingual Chinese Context

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  • Author: Mairin Hennebry-Leung
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000610586
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 200

Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from teachers and students in Hong Kong’s secondary schools, this book examines critical questions in relation to language learning motivation and instructional contexts. Readers are provided with a critical overview of developments in theory and research on language learning motivation and the potential to further extend these developments. Grounded in the Douglas Fir Group conceptualization of language learning, the book explores the complex interplay of diverse factors that shape learners’ motivation. It offers a unique window into the situated nature of language learning motivation in the macro, meso, and micro contexts of a Chinese heritage society. In so doing, it brings the Chinese voice into the theorization of this important language learning construct. Potential future research avenues are suggested, and implications for policy and practice are discussed. This book will be a useful resource for academics and postgraduates interested in the fields of English as a second language (ESL), English language teaching, language teaching and learning.

Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation

2016-06-02
Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation

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  • Author: Richard J. Sampson
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783095903
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

This book explores how complex systems theory can contribute to the understanding of classroom language learner motivation through an extended examination of one particular, situated research project. Working from the lived experience of the participants, the study describes how action research methods were used to explore the dynamic conditions operating in a foreign language classroom in Japan. The book draws attention to the highly personalised and individual, yet equally co-formed nature of classroom foreign language learning motivation and to the importance of agency and emotions in language learning. It presents an extended illustration of the applicability of complex systems theory for research design and process in SLA and its narrative approach shines light upon the evolving nature of research and role of the researcher. The study will be a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers and postgraduate students interested in classroom language teaching and learning, especially those with a focus on motivation among learners.