Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning / / ed. by Zoltán Dörnyei, Peter D. MacIntyre, Alastair Henry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Hoorie, Ali H.,; Arano, Kumiko,; Baba, Kyoko,; Bot, Kees de,; Chan, Letty,; Csizér, Kata,; Dörnyei, Zoltán,; Gregersen, Tammy,; Henry, Alastair,; Hiver, Phil,; Ibrahim, Zana,; Irie, Kay,; Larsen-Freeman, Diane,; MacIntyre, Peter D.,; Mercer, Sarah,; Muir, Christine,; Nitta, Ryo,; Piniel, Katalin,; Ryan, Stephen,; Schumann, John H.,; Serroul, Alicia,; Ushioda, Ema,; Verspoor, Marjolijn,; Waninge, Frea,; Yashima, Tomoko,; You, Chenjing,
• HerausgeberIn: Dörnyei, Zoltán,; Henry, Alastair,; MacIntyre, Peter D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction: Applying Complex Dynamic Systems Principles to Empirical Research on L2 Motivation -- Part 1: Conceptual Summaries -- 2. Ten 'Lessons' from Complex Dynamic Systems Theory: What is on Offer -- 3. Attractor States -- 4. Rates of Change: Timescales in Second Language Development -- 5. Initial Conditions -- 6. Context and Complex Dynamic Systems Theory -- 7. Human Agency: Does the Beach Ball Have Free Will? -- 8. Social Network Analysis and Complex Dynamic Systems -- 9. The Dynamics of Possible Selves -- 10. 'Directed Motivational Currents': Regulating Complex Dynamic Systems through Motivational Surges -- Part 2: Empirical Studies -- 11. Motivation on a Per-Second Timescale: Examining Approach- Avoidance Motivation During L2 Task Performance -- 12. Dynamics of the Self: A Multilevel Nested Systems Approach -- 13. Changes in Motivation, Anxiety and Self-efficacy During the Course of an Academic Writing Seminar -- 14. Motivation, Emotion and Cognition: Attractor States in the Classroom -- 15. Once Burned, Twice Shy: The Dynamic Development of System Immunity in Teachers -- 16. Learner Archetypes and Signature Dynamics in the Language Classroom: A Retrodictive Qualitative Modelling Approach to Studying L2 Motivation -- 17. 'I Can See a Little Bit of You on Myself': A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Inner Dialogue between Teacher and Learner Selves -- 18. Understanding EFL Learners' Motivational Dynamics: A Three-Level Model from a Dynamic Systems and -- 19. The Dynamics of L3 Motivation: A Longitudinal Interview/ Observation-Based Study -- 20. Study Abroad and the Dynamics of Change in Learner L2 Self-Concept -- 21. Self-Regulation in the Evolution of the Ideal L2 Self: A Complex Dynamic Systems Approach to the L2 Motivational Self System -- 22. The Dynamics of L2 Imagery in Future Motivational Self-Guides -- 23. Conclusion: Hot Enough to be Cool: The Promise of Dynamic Systems Research