International Perspectives on Motivation

International Perspectives on Motivation

Author: E. Ushioda

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1137000872

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Bringing together motivation-related practical concerns and debates from diverse international contexts and educational settings where English is learned, this book shows how locally produced insights and issues can have wider global significance, resonating with the experiences and concerns of English teachers and learners across the world.


Affect and Mathematics Education

Affect and Mathematics Education

Author: Markku S. Hannula

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 3030137619

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This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 topic study group “Affect, beliefs and identity in mathematics education”, presents the latest trends in research in the area. Following an introduction and a survey chapter providing a concise overview of the state-of-art in the field of mathematics-related affect, the book is divided into three main sections: motivation and values, engagement, and identity in mathematics education. Each section comprises several independent chapters based on original research, as well as a reflective commentary by an expert in the area. Collectively, the chapters present a rich methodological spectrum, from narrative analysis to structural equation modelling. In the final chapter, the editors look ahead to future directions in the area of mathematics-education-related affect. It is a timely resource for all those interested in the interaction between affect and mathematics education.


Global Perspectives on Teacher Motivation

Global Perspectives on Teacher Motivation

Author: Helen M. G. Watt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1108210511

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Many studies of teacher motivation have been conducted in different contexts over time. However, until fairly recently there has not been a reliable measure available to allow comparisons across samples and settings. This has resulted in an abundance of findings which cannot be directly compared or synthesised. The FIT-Choice instrument offers the opportunity to examine motivations across settings. The various studies in this book suggest that people who choose teaching as a career are motivated by a complex interaction of factors embedded within communities and cultural expectations, but seem generally to embrace a desire to undertake meaningful work that makes for a better society. Unlike some careers, where rewards are in the form of salary and status, by and large these factors are not strong drivers for people who want to become teachers. They want to work with children and adolescents, and believe they have the ability to teach.


Teaching, Learning, and Motivation in a Multicultural Context

Teaching, Learning, and Motivation in a Multicultural Context

Author: Farideh Salili

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1607527936

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The volume 3 of this series is designed to present educators with current research and emerging issues in teaching, learning and motivation in a multicultural context. The book is separated into four sections. In the introduction section we have outlined some of the current issues and recent thoughts about the nature of learning, teaching, and school reforms from a multicultural perspective.


International Perspectives on Creativity in the Foreign Language Classrooms

International Perspectives on Creativity in the Foreign Language Classrooms

Author: Isaak Papadopoulos

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781536180855

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The book titled "International Perspectives on Creativity in the Foreign Language Classrooms" aspires to provide a reflective and descriptive account of creative practices as well as research related to creativity from an international perspective. In particular, through a collection of 12 studies conducted in various countries and continents, an attempt is made to provide readers with creative examples of teaching practice and research incentives, as proposed and presented by the authors of this collected edition. The contributors of this book report and reflect on classroom practices that increase motivation, promote creative learning, heighten learners' creativity, enhance their learning potential and their multicultural sensitivity. They discuss challenges of applications in diverse contexts based on playful activities and stories that develop a creative learning environment in a foreign language classroom. Some other studies focus on multiple intelligences theory approach making students 'know' and 'apply' the appropriate behaviour and they present creative ways and multisensory approaches of approaching dyslexic students in a language classroom. The authors provide perspectives from different angles on the above mentioned issues demonstrating that multiliteracies practices, games, different art forms, popular-culture texts, digital storytelling and interactive activities could be effective tools in foreign language learning.


Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learning - 1st Volume

Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learning - 1st Volume

Author: Dennis M. McInerney

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2001-03-01

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1607529513

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The aim of this book series is to provide a much needed outlet for the wealth of cross-cultural research that has not impacted upon mainstream education. This particular volume is divided into four parts: the motivation context; the learning context; the family context; and the curriculum context.


Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation

Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation

Author: Zoltán Dörnyei

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2006-04-12

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1847698980

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This volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation survey in second language studies. The research team gathered data from over 13,000 Hungarian language learners on three successive occasions: in 1993, 1999 and 2004. The examined period covers a particularly prominent time in Hungary’s history, the transition from a closed, Communist society to a western-style democracy that became a member of the European Union in 2004. Thus, the book provides an ‘attitudinal/motivational flow-chart’ describing how significant sociopolitical changes affect the language disposition of a nation. The investigation focused on the appraisal of five target languages – English, German, French, Italian and Russian – and this multi-language design made it also possible to observe the changing status of the different languages in relation to each other over the examined 12-year period. Thus, the authors were in an ideal position to investigate the ongoing impact of language globalisation in a context where for various political/historical reasons certain transformation processes took place with unusual intensity and speed. The result is a unique blueprint of how and why language globalisation takes place in an actual language learning environment.


Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation

Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation

Author: Eleanor H. Simpson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-11

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 3319269356

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This volume covers the current status of research in the neurobiology of motivated behaviors in humans and other animals in healthy condition. This includes consideration of the psychological processes that drive motivated behavior and the anatomical, electrophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms which drive these processes and regulate behavioural output. The volume also includes chapters on pathological disturbances in motivation including apathy, or motivational deficit as well as addictions, the pathological misdirection of motivated behavior. As with the chapters on healthy motivational processes, the chapters on disease provide a comprehensive up to date review of the neurobiological abnormalities that underlie motivation, as determined by studies of patient populations as well as animal models of disease. The book closes with a section on recent developments in treatments for motivational disorders.


Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self

Author: Zoltán Dörnyei

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009-01-12

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1847696759

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Due to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of second language acquisition research for several decades. Over the last few years L2 motivation research has taken an exciting new turn by focusing increasingly on the language learner’s situated identity and various self-perceptions. As a result, the concept of L2 motivation is currently in the process of being radically reconceptualised and re-theorised in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity. With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume brings together the first comprehensive anthology of key conceptual and empirical papers that mark this important paradigmatic shift.


International Perspectives on CLIL

International Perspectives on CLIL

Author: Chantal Hemmi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 303070095X

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This edited book offers culturally-situated, critical accounts of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approaches in diverse educational settings, showcasing authentic examples of how CLIL can be applied to different educational levels from primary to tertiary. The contributors offer a research-based, critical view of CLIL opportunities, challenges and implications in the following areas: teacher education, continuing professional development, assessment, teacher-student dialogue, translanguaging, coursebooks, bilingual education, authenticity, language development and thinking skills. This wide-ranging volume will appeal to students and scholars of English Language Teaching (ELT), language policy and planning, bi- and multilingualism, and applied linguistics more broadly.