Motivation, Autonomy and Emotions in Foreign Language Learning - (Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching) (Paperback)

About the Book

This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students' and the teachers' perspectives. The comparative analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that have the potential to shape classroom learning in the future.

Book Synopsis

This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students' and the teachers' perspectives. The comparative analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that have the potential to shape classroom learning in the future.

Review Quotes

This book presents a large-scale rigorously designed and executed mixed-methods project, giving insights into hitherto unexplored areas of individual differences. Based on the intriguing results of the survey and the teacher interview data, the authors offer hands-on pedagogical suggestions that are relevant far beyond the Hungarian context. The volume is a must-have for research students, scholars and practitioners interested in individual differences and the methods that can be applied to study them.

This exemplary large-scale study is a mixed-methods research gem. Readers interested in motivation and emotions will discover a series of interrelated findings presented with clarity, in detailed and nuanced ways. This book inspires thoughtful consideration of similarities and differences between teacher and learner psychology and how they change over time.

Using data from foreign language learners and teachers in Hungarian secondary schools, the authors do a superb job of painting an intriguing picture of the interplay of motivation, autonomy and self-efficacy, as well as positive and negative emotions. Their findings offer crucial insights that extend far beyond one specific context. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interested in the role of individual variation in learning additional languages.

About the Author

Kata Csizér is Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research focuses on foreign language learning motivation, and she is Associate Editor of the Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching journal and Co-Editor of the monograph series Applied Linguistics in the 21st Century, published by Akadémiai Kiadó.

Dávid Smid is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Graz, Austria. His research interests include language learner psychology, teacher psychology and positive psychology, and he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning.

Anna Zólyomi is Assistant Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research explores individual differences, implicit and explicit learning and differentiated instruction, and she is Section Editor at GiLE Journal of Skills Development.

Ágnes Albert is Assistant Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research focuses on task-based language learning, foreign language learning-related emotions and flow, and she is Associate Editor of the Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching journal.