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

Dornyei, Dornyei

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140511116X ISBN 13: 9781405111164

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

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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Review:

"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of motivational theories and recent research developments and directions, reporting on studies that represent the 'cutting-edge' in the field ... well-structured, well-written and well-edited." Language Awareness

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 140511116X
• ISBN 13: 9781405111164
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220