Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education. Christine Muir

Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education

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PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING

Series Editors: Sarah Mercer, Universität Graz, Austria and Stephen Ryan, Waseda University, Japan

This international, interdisciplinary book series explores the exciting, emerging field of Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching. It is a series that aims to bring together works which address a diverse range of psychological constructs from a multitude of empirical and theoretical perspectives, but always with a clear focus on their applications within the domain of language learning and teaching. The field is one that integrates various areas of research that have been traditionally discussed as distinct entities, such as motivation, identity, beliefs, strategies and self-regulation, and which also explores other less familiar concepts for a language education audience, such as emotions, the self, and positive psychology approaches. In theoretical terms, the new field represents a dynamic interface between psychology and foreign language education and books in the series draw on work from diverse branches of psychology, while remaining determinedly focused on their pedagogic value. In methodological terms, sociocultural and complexity perspectives have drawn attention to the relationships between individuals and their social worlds, leading to a field now marked by methodological pluralism. In view of this, books encompassing quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies are all welcomed.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/MUIR8854

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Names: Muir, Christine, author.

Title: Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy/Christine Muir.

Description: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters, 2020. | Series: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching: 8 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: ‘This book presents empirical research which investigates directed motivational currents (DMCs) in the context of second language learning and motivation. The studies explore participants’ individual experiences of DMCs, and the practical implications of DMC theory for L2 pedagogy through the use of intensive group projects’ – Provided by publisher.

Subjects: LCSH: English language – Study and teaching – Foreign speakers. | Second language learning. | Motivation in education.

Classification: LCC PE1128.A2 M844 2020 (print) | LCC PE1128.A2 (ebook) | DDC 428.0071 – dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020018824LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020018825

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Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part 1: Introducing DMCs and Intensive Group Projects

1 Key Threads in the Field of L2 Motivation Research and the Emergence of Directed Motivational Currents

From Macro to Micro Perspectives: Unavoidable Complexity

Changing Methodological Priorities and Perspectives

Possible Selves, the L2 Motivational Self System and Vision