A call for a multifaced approach to language learning motivation research:Combining complexity, humanistic, and critical perspectives

• Authors: Julian Pigott
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the author gives an overview of recent development in the L2 motivation field, in particular the movement away from quantitative, questionnaire-based methodologies toward smaller-scale qualitative studies incorporating concepts form complexity theory.

Keywords

EN

motivation; positivist research; reductionist research; complex systems; humanistic perspective

• Publisher: Zakład Filologii Angielskiej, Wydział Pedagogiczno Artystyczny, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Kalisz
• Journal: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 349-366

Dates

cover

2012-10

Contributors

author

Julian Pigott

• University of Warwick, Coventry, UK,

Identifiers

ISSN

2083-5205