Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Zoltán Dörnyei (editor); Peter D. MacIntyre (editor); Alastair Henry (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of conceptual papers and data-based research studies investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The chapters seek to answer the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as a continuously changing and evolving entity rather than a fixed learner trait.

✦ Table of Contents

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