Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation : A Practitioner Perspective from Japan / Richard J. Sampson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sampson, Richard J., Author.

Series:

Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; Volume 101.

Second Language Acquisition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Japanese speakers.

Language and languages.

Languages, Modern--Study and teaching--Japan.

Languages, Modern.

Second language acquisition--Japan.

Second language acquisition.

Motivation (Psychology)--Japan.

Motivation (Psychology).

Teacher-student relationships--Japan.

Teacher-student relationships.

Japan--Classroom managment.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Groundings from Foreign Language Learning Motivation Research in Japan

3. A Move to Socio-dynamic Motivation

4. Research Design

5. Action Research Narrative

6. Revisiting Complex Systems Theory

7. Class Group as Open System

8. Co-adaptation Between Self and Environment

9. Motivational Phase-shifts and Self-organisation Across the Class Group

10. Novel Motivational Emergence in the Class Group

11. The Landscape of Classroom Motivation

12. Conclusion and Iteration

Appendix A: Overview of English Course

Appendix B: Learning Journal Instructions

Appendix C: Outline of Sessions in Action Research Cycles

Appendix D: Change-action in Cycle 1

Appendix E: Change-action in Cycle 3

Appendix F: Change-action in Cycle 4

Appendix G: Change-action in Cycle 5

Appendix H: Outline of Final Infomercial Project

Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781783095902

1783095903

9781783095896

178309589X

OCLC:

951076213