Innovations and challenges in language learning motivation / Zoltán Dörnyei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dörnyei, Zoltán, author.

Series:

Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition--Study and teaching.

Second language acquisition.

Motivation in education--Study and teaching.

Motivation in education.

Physical Description:

viii, 178 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Innovations 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Fundamental challenges I: The conceptualisation of 'motivation' p. 4

Challenge 1 What is motivation: a trait, a state or a process? p. 4

Challenge 2 How can we conceptualise motivation in a process-oriented manner? p. 9

Challenge 3 Is it possible to distinguish motivation from affect and cognition? p. 14

Challenge 4 Conscious versus unconscious motivation p. 15

2 Fundamental challenges II: Motivational dynamics p. 21

Challenge 5 How to account for the context of motivation p. 21

Challenge 6 The issue of different timescales p. 32

Challenge 7 The interference of multiple parallel goals p. 36

Challenge 8 How to handle the dynamic complexity of motivation p. 41

3 Fundamental challenges III: Motivation applied p. 50

Challenge 9 Motivation and SLA p. 50

Challenge 10 How to enhance motivation meaningfully, without carrots and sticks p. 53

Challenge 11 How can we measure a dynamic concept such as motivation? p. 65

4 Research frontiers I: Unconscious motivation p. 76

Human agency and its unconscious limits p. 77

Unconscious goal setting and goal pursuit p. 84

Dual-process theories and the interaction of the conscious and the unconscious mind p. 87

Researching unconscious motivation p. 88

5 Research frontiers II: Vision p. 100

What is vision? p. 101

Applications of vision in the social sciences p. 109

How does vision motivate? p. 115

Vision and L2 motivation p. 123

6 Research frontiers III: Long-term motivation and persistence p. 136

High-octane motivational fuel: 'Self-concordant vision' p. 137

Limiting energy depletion through energy saving p. 139

Regenerating energy 1: Lessons from 'directed motivational currents' p. 142

Regenerating energy 2: Lessons from 'psychological momentum' p. 145

Augmenting energy with positive emotionality p. 151

Motivational breakdown cover: Persistence and self-control p. 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Dörnyei, Zoltán, Innovations and challenges in language learning motivation

ISBN:

9781138599147

113859914X

9781138599161

1138599166

OCLC:

1123181657