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 …

The authors describe a model of autobiographical memory in which memories are transitory
mental constructions within a self-memory system (SMS). The SMS contains an …

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 …

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 …

The imagination is powerful, in part, because of the emotions that can be activated by
imagining future states. Imagined future states are a key feature of the L2 self-system …

Although the influence of identity on consumer behavior has been documented in many
streams of literature, the absence of a consistent definition of identity and of generally …

Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Exploring fluency from multiple vantage
points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research …

This innovative text sheds light on how people work--why they sometimes function well and,
at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. The author presents her …

In 2005, I outlined the basis of a new approach to conceptualising second language (L2)
learning motivation within a 'self'framework (Dörnyei, 2005), calling the new theory the 'L2 …

The term future work self refers to an individual's representation of himself or herself in the
future that reflects his or her hopes and aspirations in relation to work. The clearer and more …