Attitudes, Orientations, and Motivations in Language Learning: Advances in Theory, Research, and Applications (Best of Language Learning Series) - Softcover

 
9781405111164: Attitudes, Orientations, and Motivations in Language Learning: Advances in Theory, Research, and Applications (Best of Language Learning Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 140511116X ISBN 13: 9781405111164
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Zoltán Dörnyei (PhD in psycholinguistics, Eötvös University, Budapest) is currently Reader/Associate Professor in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, where he is also Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics. He has published over 50 academic papers on various aspects of second language acquisition and language teaching methodology, and is the author of several books, including Interpersonal Dynamics in Second Language Education: The Visible and Invisible Classroom ( 1998, Sage Publisher; co-authored with Madeline Ehrman), Teaching and Researching Motivation (2001, Longman), Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom (2001, Cambridge University Press) and Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing (2002, Lawrence Erlbaum).

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Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine the rate and success of language learning: It provides the primary impetus to embark upon learning and later the driving force to sustain the long and often tedious learning process. Due to the complex nature of language itself – it is at the same time a communication code, an integral part of the individual’s identity, and the most important channel of social organization – language learning motivation is a multifaceted construct, consisting of a range of different motives associated with certain features of the language, the language learner, and the learning situation. This volume addresses this intriguing complexity by first providing a comprehensive overview of the recent development and the most important research directions in the field, and then by offering a selection of data-based studies by some of the best-known motivation researchers. These research papers conceptualize the motivation complex in different yet complementary ways, proposing and empirically validating various constituent attitudes, orientations and motives – hence the title of the volume.

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Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine the rate and success of language learning: It provides the primary impetus to embark upon learning and later the driving force to sustain the long and often tedious learning process. Due to the complex nature of language itself – it is at the same time a communication code, an integral part of the individual’s identity, and the most important channel of social organization – language learning motivation is a multifaceted construct, consisting of a range of different motives associated with certain features of the language, the language learner, and the learning situation. This volume addresses this intriguing complexity by first providing a comprehensive overview of the recent development and the most important research directions in the field, and then by offering a selection of data-based studies by some of the best-known motivation researchers. These research papers conceptualize the motivation complex in different yet complementary ways, proposing and empirically validating various constituent attitudes, orientations and motives – hence the title of the volume.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
140511116X
ISBN 13 
9781405111164
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Herausgeber
Dornyei Zoltan
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