With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive anthology of conceptual and empirical papers describing the latest developments in L2 motivation research that involves the reframing of motivation in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity.
Zoltán Dörnyei was a Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. He published extensively on second language acquisition and learner psychology, with a particular focus on language learner motivation.
Ema Ushioda is a Professor and Head of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, where she has been based since 2002. Ema is known for her work on motivation and autonomy in language learning, particularly for promoting qualitative approaches to researching motivation, and she has published widely in these areas. Her books include International Perspectives on Motivation: Language Learning and Professional Challenges(2013), Teaching and Researching Motivation (co-authored by Dörnyei, 2011), Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self (co-edited by Dörnyei, 2009), and the forthcoming title Language Learning Motivation: An Ethical Agenda for Research (2020).