Description
This collection of conceptual papers and data-based research studies investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The chapters seek to answer the question of how we can understand motivation if we perceive it as a continuously changing and evolving entity rather than a fixed learner trait.
Chapter
Part 1 Conceptual Summaries
2 Ten ‘Lessons’ from Complex Dynamic Systems Theory: What is on Offer
4 Rates of Change: Time scales in Second Language Development
6 Context and Complex Dynamic Systems Theory
7 Human Agency: Does the Beach Ball Have Free Will?
8 Social Network Analysis and Complex Dynamic Systems
9 The Dynamics of Possible Selves
10 ‘Directed Motivational Currents’: Regulating Complex Dynamic Systems through Motivational Surges
11 Motivation on a Per-Second Timescale: Examining Approach–Avoidance Motivation During L2 Task Performance
12 Dynamics of the Self: A Multilevel Nested Systems Approach
13 Changes in Motivation, Anxiety and Self-efficacy During the Course of an Academic Writing Seminar
14 Motivation, Emotion and Cognition: Attractor States in the Classroom
15 Once Burned, Twice Shy: The Dynamic Development of System Immunity in Teachers
16 Learner Archetypes and Signature Dynamics in the Language Classroom: A Retrodictive Qualitative Modelling Approach to Studying L2 Motivation
17 ‘I Can See a Little Bit of You on Myself’: A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Inner Dialogue between Teacher and Learner Selves
18 Understanding EFL Learners’ Motivational Dynamics: A Three-Level Model from a Dynamic Systems and Sociocultural Perspective
19 The Dynamics of L3 Motivation: A Longitudinal Interview/Observation-Based Study
20 Study Abroad and the Dynamics of Change in Learner L2 Self-Concept
21 Self-Regulation in the Evolution of the Ideal L2 Self: A Complex Dynamic Systems Approach to the L2 Motivational Self System
22 The Dynamics of L2 Imagery in Future Motivational Self-Guides
23 Conclusion: Hot Enough to be Cool: The Promise of Dynamic Systems Research
Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning
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