Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success–and therefore crucial for the
language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and …

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest among theorists and researchers in
autobiographical recollections, life stories, and narrative approaches to understanding …

In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a
future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that …

Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the
analysis of various characteristics within individuals towards a greater consideration of …

Visual research methods are quickly becoming key topics of interest and are now widely
recognised as having the potential to evoke emphatic understanding of the ways in which …

What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you
with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having …

Building on Zoltán Dörnyei's authoritative work in the field of learner motivation, this book
introduces a new conceptualization—Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs)—and sets out …

This book explores key areas of educational and social psychology and considers their
relevance to language learning and teaching, using activities and questions for reflection …

Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can
affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making …

Autonomy has become a keyword of language policy in education systems around the
world, as the importance of independent learning and new technologies has grown. Now in …