The School is proud to have a strong tradition of co-publishing with its students
Current School of English PhD students Zana Ibrahim and have recently co-published a chapter in a new book with their supervisor, .
The chapter, entitled 'Directed motivational current: Energising language learning through creating intense motivational pathways' appears in the recently published Motivation and Foreign Language Learning: From theory to practice 1
They describe the chapter thus: "In this chapter, we introduce a novel psychological construct whose key aspects are well-established in major motivation theories. A Directed Motivational Current (DMC) is a conceptual framework which depicts unique periods of intensive motivational involvement both in pursuit of and fuelled by a highly valued goal/vision. The heightened motivational state of individuals or groups involved in a DMC is maintained through the deployment of a salient facilitative structure that includes reinforcing feedback loops, positive emotionality and the prospect of reaching a new level of operation. When applied in second language contexts, DMCs can energise language learners to perform beyond expectations and across several levels and timescales, including long-term engagements."
This publication comes just before the , which will be held at Nottingham later this month.
Further information about the chapter and book can be found from the .
1D. LASAGABASTER, A. DOIZ and J.M. SIERRA, eds., 2014. Motivation and foreign language learning: From theory to practice. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Posted on Monday 18th August 2014