1st Edition
Motivational Currents in Language Learning Frameworks for Focused Interventions
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction: Three Stories. 2. DMCs Versus Long-Term Motivation: Positioning DMCs Within L2 Motivation Theory. 3. Vistion: The ‘Directed’ Aspects of DMCs. 4. The Launch of a DMC: Shifting into Hyperdrive. 5. The Unique Structure of a DMC: Utilizing ‘Renewable Energy’. 6. Positive Emotional Loading: Eudaimonic Well-Being and Authenticity. 7. When the Current Begins to Wane: The Nature of Effort and the Longer-term Sustainability of DMCs. 8. Introducing ‘Group-DMCs’. 9. Generating DMCs in the Language Classroom.
Biography
Zoltán Dörnyei is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK.
Alastair Henry is an Associate Professor in language education at University West, Sweden.
Christine Muir is a Postgraduate Teaching Fellow at the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK.
