Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Garold Murray (editor); Xuesong (Andy) Gao (editor); Terry Lamb (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in order to investigate the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
1. Exploring Links between Identity, Motivation and Autonomy
Part 1: Emerging Theoretical Perspectives
2. Motivating Learners to Speak as Themselves
3. Joining Forces for Synergy: Agency and Metacognition as Interrelated Theoretical Perspectives on Learner Autonomy
4. Emerging Selves, Language Learning and Motivation through the Lens of Chaos
5. Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Second Language Acquisition from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive Systems
Part 2: Independent Learning Settings
6. Imagination, Metacognition and the L2 Self in a Self-Access Learning Environment
7. Identity, Motivation and Plurilingualism in Self-Access Centers
8. ‘Why am I Doing This?’ Maintaining Motivation 8 ‘Why am I Doing This?’ Maintaining Motivation in Distance Language Learning
9. Beliefs, Identity and Motivation in Implementing Autonomy: The Teacher’s Perspective
Part 3: Cultures and Contexts
10. Identity, Motivation and Autonomy: A Tale of Two Cities
11. Natural Talent, Natural Acquisition and Abroad: Learner Attributions of Agency in Language Learning
12. Future Selves, Motivation and Autonomy in Long-Term EFL Learning Trajectories
13. ‘Failing’ to Achieve Autonomy in English for Medical Purposes
14. Crucial but Neglected: English as a Foreign Language Teachers’ Perspectives on Learner Motivation
15. A Dynamic Account of Autonomy, Agency and Identity in (T)EFL Learning
16. Identity, Motivation and Autonomy: Stretching our Boundaries
Index