Download or read book Attitudes Orientations and Motivations in Language Learning written by Zoltan Dornyei and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2003-04-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine the rate and success of language learning. This volume addresses motivation in language learning - motives associated with certain features of the language, the language learner, and the learning situation. Discusses and dissects the intriguingly complex characteristic of motivation in the process of language learning. Explores recent developments and the most important research directions in the field, including a selection of data-based studies by some of the best-known motivation researchers.
Download or read book Attitudes Orientations and Motivations in Language Learning written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning written by Martin Lamb and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Language Learning written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young Language Learners Motivation and Attitudes written by Sybille Heinzmann and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes. In adopting a longitudinal perspective, the book fills a research gap and provides a macro-level analysis of motivational development over time. It reveals a surprising amount of stability in primary school children's motivational and attitudinal development. The comparative perspective looks at the learners' affective dispositions with regard to English (theorized as a 'global language') and French (theorized as a 'national language'). The comparisons between global language and national language are relevant across the world, especially in situations where instruction in languages other than English struggles to get attention. The results reveal sizeable differences between the two languages, with children being substantially more motivated to learn English than to learn French. Finally, the explanatory section identifies key antecedents of the learners' motivational and attitudinal dispositions - and thereby opens up paths for intervention relevant for those working in the field of language instruction.
Download or read book Motivation Language Identity and the L2 Self written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of second language acquisition research for several decades. Over the last few years L2 motivation research has taken an exciting new turn by focusing increasingly on the language learner’s situated identity and various self-perceptions. As a result, the concept of L2 motivation is currently in the process of being radically reconceptualised and re-theorised in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity. With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume brings together the first comprehensive anthology of key conceptual and empirical papers that mark this important paradigmatic shift.
Download or read book Motivational Currents in Language Learning written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on Zoltán Dörnyei’s authoritative work in the field of learner motivation, this book introduces a new conceptualization—Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs)—and sets out the defining aspects of what they are, what they are not, and how they are related to language learning motivation. Going beyond focused behavior in a single activity, DMCs concern intensive long-term motivation. The distinctive feature of the theory is that it views motivation not simply as a springboard for action but also as a uniquely self-renewing and sustainable process. It is this energizing capacity which distinguishes DMCs from almost every other motivational construct described in the research literature. Motivational Currents in Language Learning offers new insights, valuable both to motivation researchers and classroom practitioners. The accessible style, along with plentiful illustrations and practical suggestions for promoting sustained learning, invite readers to think about motivation in a different way. Highly relevant for language teachers, teachers-in-training, teacher educators, and researchers in TESOL and applied linguistics, the book explains how the DMC construct can be integrated into course structures and teaching methodologies, and encourages teachers to try out novel methods for harnessing motivational power in classroom settings.
Download or read book Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education written by David W. Chapman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate. The book’s focus is on how higher education systems learn from each other and on the ways in which they collaborate to address new challenges. The sub-theme that runs through this volume concerns the changing nature of cross-border sharing. In particular, the provision of technical assistance by more industrialized countries to lower and middle income countries has given way to collaborations that place the latter’s participating institutions on a more equal footing.
Download or read book Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes a pratical approach to teaching motivational strategies in the language classroom, and gives the teacher 35 motivational strategies that they can use with language learners.
Download or read book Motivation Language Attitudes and Globalisation written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation survey, involving over 13,000 teenage language learners in Hungary on three successive occasions: in 1993, 1999 and 2004. The results are not confined to the European environment but have wider implications concerning attitude change, motivational dynamics and language globalisation.
Download or read book The Psychology of the Language Learner written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of individual learner differences is broad, yet there is no current, comprehensive, and unified volume that provides an overview of the considerable amount of research conducted on various language learner differences, until now.
Download or read book Attitudes and Motivation in Foreign Language Learning written by Maria C. Delgado-Chinchilla and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attitudes and Motivation in Second language Learning written by Robert C. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Second Language Proficiency written by Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the findings of a major investigation of second language proficiency in various groups of school-aged learners. It invites a frank appraisal of the research from an outside panel of experts. The theoretical and practical implications of the study are the subject of a lively debate focused on three main research issues: the nature of second language proficiency, the impact of classroom treatment on second language learning, and the role of social and individual factors in bilingual development. This original collection of articles will be of interest to all those concerned with policy and practice in second language education.
Download or read book Motivation and Second Language Acquisition written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr. This book was released on 2001 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume - the second in this series concerned with motivation and foreign language learning - includes papers presented at a colloquium on second language motivation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics as well as a number of specially commissioned surveys.
Download or read book Motivational Orientations in Chinese Learning written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of educational motivation for Chinese language acquisition in the higher learning context. To study the effect of motivation on language learning and learning outcomes of a Mandarin Chinese language learner, I measured integrative motivation, instrumental motivation, and a learner's attitudinal motivation, i.e. the orientation of attitude toward the language learning situations and examined how each influences Chinese language learning and a learner's learning outcomes. Given the heterogeneous nature of the Chinese language learners in the United States college classrooms, I divided the learners into two major classes: Chinese heritage language learners (HLLs), and Non-heritage learners (NHLLs). However, given the significant differences among NHLLs, in my analyses I further divided the NHLLs into two sub-groups: Eastern Asian non-heritage language learners, and Other non-heritage language learners. Students studied in this dissertation were registered in Chinese classes at the State University of New York at Buffalo. They were asked to complete a questionnaire that assesses (a) their integrative and instrumental orientations for learning Chinese, and (b) their attitudes toward the learning situations such as instructor/course specifics, group/peer specifics, and environment specifics--such as their attitudes toward a mixed classroom setting of heritage language learners (HLLs) and non-heritage language learners (NHLLs). Enrollments in Chinese language classes have been increasing across the United States. In most college Chinese language classes HLLs and NHLL are mixed. This study contributes to the literature on teaching and learning Chinese, and to the literature regarding internationalizing American higher education. It will help to improve Chinese language curriculums and programs at the higher education level in the United States, especially in the following aspects: (1) establishing connections between various motivations and academic learning outcomes for heritage language learners (HLLs) in comparison with non-heritage language learners (NHLLs), and (2) finding out the effects of learners' attitudes toward a mixed classroom learning environment in relation to their language learning and language learning outcomes for various heritage groups. In addition, the results gained from this comparative study should help to persuade higher education administrators and government policy makers that HLLs and NHLLs require separate classrooms, subsidiary materials, support organizations and specially trained language professionals that are capable of meeting their specific educational demands.
Download or read book Contemporary Language Motivation Theory written by Ali H. Al-Hoorie and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together contributions from the leaders of the language learning motivation field. The varied chapters demonstrate how Gardner’s work remains integral to a diverse range of contemporary theoretical issues underlying the psychology of language, even today, 60 years after the publication of Gardner and Lambert’s seminal 1959 paper. The chapters cover a wide selection of topics related to applied linguistics, second language acquisition, social psychology, sociology, methodology and historical issues. The book advances thinking on cutting-edge topics in these diverse areas, providing a wealth of information for both students and established scholars that show the continuing and future importance of Gardner and Lambert’s ideas.
