Language Learning Motivation in Japan

✍ Scribed by Matthew T. Apple (editor); Dexter Da Silva (editor); Terry Fellner (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book synthesises current theory and research on L2 motivation in the EFL Japanese context covering topics such as the issues of cultural identity, demotivation, language communities, positive psychology, possible L2 selves and internationalisation within a key EFL context.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. Foreign Language Motivation Research in Japan: An ‘Insider’ Perspective from Outside Japan
2. Learning Japanese; Learning English: Promoting Motivation Through Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness
3. Imagined L2 Selves and Motivation for Intercultural Communication
4. Exploring Classroom-based Constructs of EFL Motivation for Science and Engineering Students in Japan
5. Dual Goal Orientation in the Japanese Context: A Case Study of Two EFL Learners
6. A Comprehensive Summary of Empirical Studies of Motivation Among Japanese Elementary School EFL Learners
7. One Curriculum, Three Stories: Ideal L2 Self and L2-Self-Discrepancy Profiles
8. Effect of Intercultural Contact on L2 Motivation: A Comparative Study
9. Motivation, Ideal L2 Self and Valuing of Global English
10. Motivation, Attitudes and Selves in the Japanese Context: A Mixed Methods Approach
11. A Longitudinal Perspective on EFL Learning Motivation in Japanese Engineering Students
12. Demotivators in the Japanese EFL Context
13. Positive L2 Self: Linking Positive Psychology with L2 Motivation
14. What’s Working in Japan? Present Communities of Imagining
15. Understanding Motivational Evolution in the EFL Classroom: A Longitudinal Study from a Dynamic Systems Perspective
16. Motivational Design for Effective Second Language Instruction
17. Perspectives on L2 Motivation: Bridging the Gaps between Teachers, SLA Researchers and Teacher Educators
Index