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OverviewInnovations and Challenges in Language Learning Motivation provides a cutting-edge perspective on the latest challenges and innovations in language learning motivation, incorporating numerous examples and cases in mainstream psychology and in the field of second language acquisition. Drawing on over three decades of research experience as well as an extensive review of the latest psychological and SLA literature, Dörnyei provides an accessible overview of these cutting-edge areas and covers novel topics that have not yet been addressed in L2 motivation research, such as: • fundamental theoretical questions such as mental time travel, ego depletion, psychological momentum and passion, and how the temporal dimension of motivation can be made consistent with a learner attribute; • key challenges concerning the notion of L2 motivation, ranging from issues about the nature of motivation (e.g. trait, state or a process?) and questions surrounding unconscious versus conscious motivation, the motivational capacity of vision, and long-term motivation and persistence; • highly practical classroom-specific challenges such as how technological advances could be better integrated in teachers’ repertoires of motivational strategies. This distinctive book from one of the key voices in the field will be essential reading for students in the field of TESOL and Applied Linguistics, as well as language teachers and teacher educators. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Zoltán DörnyeiPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.276kg ISBN: 9781138599161ISBN 10: 1138599166 Pages: 178 Publication Date: 25 February 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: The ever-changing landscape of language learning motivation research 1. Fundamental challenges I: The conceptualisation of ‘motivation’ Challenge 1: What is motivation: a trait, a state or a process? Innovation 1: McAdams’s ‘New Big Five’ theory of personality Innovation 2: Motivational implications of the New Big Five model Challenge 2: How can we conceptualise motivation in a process-oriented manner? Innovation 1: Process models of motivation Innovation 2: Other theoretical attempts to ‘capture time’ Challenge 3: Is it possible to distinguish motivation from affect and cognition? Innovation: A phenomenological account Challenge 4: Conscious versus unconscious motivation 2. Fundamental challenges II: Motivational dynamics Challenge 5: How to account for the context of motivation Innovation 1: The systematic characterisations of context Innovation 2: The rise of ‘social motivation’ Innovation 3: The rise of qualitative research Innovation 4: Gardner’s fusion of personality and social psychology Innovation 5: Person-in-context approaches Challenge 6: The issue of different timescales Innovation 1: The idiodynamic method Innovation 2: Appropriate time window and timescale Innovation 3: ‘Proximal subgoals’ Challenge 7: The interference of multiple parallel goals Innovation 1: From process models to a dynamic conception Innovation 2: Goal configurations and temporal structuring Innovation 3: Principles of goal prioritisation Challenge 8: How to handle the dynamic complexity of motivation Innovation 1: Applying the principles of complex dynamic systems theory Innovation 2: Placing the agent in the centre of a complex motivational system 3. Fundamental challenges III: Motivation applied Challenge 9: Motivation and SLA Innovation 1: Taking a ‘small lens’ approach Innovation 2: Task-based motivation Challenge 10: How to enhance motivation meaningfully, without carrots and sticks Innovation 1: Applying motivational strategies Innovation 2: Focusing on ‘student engagement’ Innovation 3: Capitalising on role modelling Innovation 4: Preventing demotivation and fostering remotivation Innovation 5: Applying technology Challenge 11: How can we measure a dynamic concept such as motivation? Innovation 1: Conducting qualitative, longitudinal and intervention studies Innovation 2: Conducting mixed methods research Innovation 3: Retrodictive qualitative modelling Innovation 4: Identifying motivational conglomerates 4. Research frontiers I: Unconscious motivation Conscious agency and its unconscious limits The case for unconscious motivation The case for conscious motivation Unconscious goal setting and goal pursuit Automatized and chronic goals Dual-process theories and the interaction of the conscious and the unconscious mind Researching unconscious motivation Priming Traditional assessment of implicit motivation through projective tests Modern assessment procedures The relationship between explicit and implicit motivational measures: Research implications Unconscious motivation in SLA Summary 5. Research frontiers II: Vision What is vision? The neuropsychology of vision Vision and human mental functioning: Dual coding theory and working memory The absence of vision: Aphantasia Envisioning the future: Mental time travelling and possible selves Applications of vision in the social sciences Vision in psychology Vision and sport performance Vision and business management How does vision motivate? Possible future selves and self-discrepancy theory Mental contrasting and process imagery Vision and hope Vision and emotions Vision and unconscious motivation Vision and L2 motivation Summary 6. Research frontiers III: Long-term motivation and persistence High-octane motivational fuel: ‘Self-concordant vision’ Limiting energy depletion through energy saving Ego depletion Conserving motivational energy through habits and behavioural routines Regenerating energy 1: Lessons from ‘Directed Motivational Currents’ Directed motivational currents (DMCs) Subgoals and progress checks Affirmative feedback and social support Regenerating energy 2: Lessons from ‘psychological momentum’ Adler’s original conception of momentum Modern conceptualisations of momentum Lessons offered by momentum research for the understanding of long-term motivation Augmenting energy with positive emotionality The notion of passion in psychology Motivational breakdown cover: Persistence and self-control Overlapping theoretical constructs Lessons emerging from the persistence literature Summary Conclusion References Subject index Author indexReviews'Zoltán Dörnyei has produced a masterful account of key challenges and innovations in contemporary language learning motivation research, drawing on a wide literature base extending into many areas of mainstream psychology. Through his impressive breadth of scholarship, insightful analysis and sheer enthusiasm for the subject, he succeeds admirably in showing why the topic of language learning motivation continues to fascinate and to challenge us, and how much more we have yet to explore. This book will be of interest to all those engaged in researching or promoting motivation in language learning.' Professor Ema Ushioda, Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK 'Zoltan Doernyei has produced a masterful account of key challenges and innovations in contemporary language learning motivation research, drawing on a wide literature base extending into many areas of mainstream psychology. Through his impressive breadth of scholarship, insightful analysis and sheer enthusiasm for the subject, he succeeds admirably in showing why the topic of language learning motivation continues to fascinate and to challenge us, and how much more we have yet to explore. This book will be of interest to all those engaged in researching or promoting motivation in language learning.' Professor Ema Ushioda, Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK Author InformationZoltán Dörnyei is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK. He has published extensively on various aspects of language learner characteristics and second language acquisition, and he is the (co-)author of over 90 academic papers and 25 books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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