Motivating Learning (Research and Resources in Language Teaching) - Softcover

Dörnyei, Zoltán; Hadfield, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408249707 ISBN 13: 9781408249703

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Bringing applied linguistics theory to life in the language classroom – this resource explains clearly and easily for teachers and teacher trainers how to implement motivational theory in their classrooms for learners of all ages and abilities.

 

While there has been a lot of discourse at an academic level about various approaches to motivation, there have, to date, been few resources for the language teacher / teacher-trainer with their finger on the scholarly pulse.  This book aims to provide the link between theory and practice, with plenty of suggestions for innovative classroom exercises and assignments that take into account students with different levels of proficiency, different age groups, and different learning styles. 

About this title

About the Author

Jill Hadfield has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Britain, France, China, Tibet, Madagascar and run short courses and seminars for teachers in many other parts of the world. She now  teaches on the Certificate and Diploma in Language Teaching, and the BA in English at Unitec New Zealand. She is the author of over 25 books, including the Longman Communication Games series, five books in the Oxford Basics series and Classroom Dynamics. She has also written a course for young learners: Excellent! published by Longman. Two Teacher Education books were published last year: Top Tools for Language Teachers (Pearson)  and An Introduction to Teaching English (OUP). She has also written two travel books and a novel. 

 

Zoltán Dörnyei received his PhD in psycholinguistics from Eötvös University, Budapest in 1989 where he then worked for 10 years as a teacher trainer and applied linguist, with his responsibilities also including being Director of Studies of the PhD program in Language Pedagogy. In 1998 he moved to the UK, and he is currently Professor of Psycholinguistics in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham. He has published over 60 academic papers on various aspects of second language acquisition and language teaching methodology, and is the author of several books

From the Back Cover

Motivation is a vital element in learning, and the most commonly cited explanation for success or failure in language learning.  Jill Hadfield and Zoltán Dörnyei present a new theory of motivation centred around the notion of the ‘Ideal Future Language Self’, arguing that if students have a rich and inspiring vision of themselves as successful future language learners and users, they will be motivated to work hard to actualise the vision and become that learner.

 

This book:

 

- integrates the latest research in language teaching with innovative classroom practice

 

- offers suggestions on how the various components of the theory could be structured into a teaching sequence

 

- includes a variety of imaginative classroom activities designed to aid both student and teacher in creating and actualising the Ideal Self through visualisation, goal setting, task identification and planning, and a selection of appropriate learning strategies.

 

- shows how teachers can undertake motivation-related research in their own classrooms.

 

This is an ideal guide to and activity book for the theory and practice of motivation in language learning for students and teachers alike.

 

Jill Hadfield is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language Studies  at  Unitec in New Zealand. She  has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Britain, France, China, Tibet, Madagascar and is the author of over thirty books, including the Communication Games series, Oxford Basics, Classroom Dynamics (1992) and An Introduction to Teaching English (2008). She  is also the editor of  the online magazine for teachers: ELTmag.

 

Zoltán Dörnyei is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of English, University of Nottingham. He has published widely on various aspects of foreign language learning and teaching, and is the author of several books, including The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Teaching and Researching Motivation, 2e with Ema Ushioda (Longman, 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408249707
• ISBN 13: 9781408249703
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320