Contemporary Language Motivation Theory

Ali H. Al-Hoorie is an Assistant Professor at the English Language Institute, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. He completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professors Zoltán Dörnyei and Norbert Schmitt. His publications have appeared in a number of journals, and he is the co-author (with Phil Hiver) of Research Methods for Complexity Theory in Applied Linguistics (Multilingual Matters, 2020).Peter D. MacIntyre is Professor of Psychology at Cape Breton University, Canada. His research examines emotion, motivation and cognition across a variety of types of behavior, including interpersonal communication, public speaking, dynamic systems, and learning. He has published several books, including Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning (co-edited with Zoltán Dörnyei and Alastair Henry).

This book highlights how Robert Gardner’s seminal work has influenced the research of an array of scholars who, through diverse, rigourous methods, have developed their own important lines of inquiry on topics such as identity, acculturation, emotions, and well-being, culminating in a unique perspective on the social psychology of language and intergroup relations.

• PrefaceZoltán DörnyeiIntegrative Motivation: Sixty Years and CountingAli H. Al-Hoorie and Peter D. MacIntyreLooking Back and Looking ForwardRobert C. GardnerPart I: Second Language Development / Applied LinguisticsChapter 1. James P. Lantolf and Merrill Swain: Perezhivanie: The Cognitive–Emotional Dialectic Within the Social Situation of DevelopmentChapter 2. Tammy Gregersen, Peter D. MacIntyre and Jessica Ross: Extending Gardner’s Socio-Educational Model to Learner Well-being: Research Propositions Linking Integrative Motivation and PERMA theoryChapter 3. Mercè Bernaus: Teachers’ and Learners’ Motivation in Multilingual ClassroomsChapter 4. Peter D. MacIntyre, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Nicole MacMillan and Chengchen Li: The Emotional Underpinnings of Gardner’s Attitudes and Motivation Test BatteryPart II: Social Psychology / SociologyChapter 5. Sara Rubenfeld and Richard Clément : Identity, Adaptation and Social Harmony: A Legacy of the Socio-Educational ModelChapter 6. Jorida Cila and Richard Lalonde: What’s in a Name? Motivations for Baby-naming in Multicultural ContextsChapter 7. Bonny Norton: Motivation, Identity, and Investment: A Journey with Robert GardnerPart III: Historical / Methodological IssuesChapter 8. Rebecca L. Oxford: Snapshots in Time: Time in Gardner’s Theory and Gardner’s Theory across TimeChapter 9. Ema Ushioda: Researching L2 Motivation: Re-evaluating the Role of Qualitative Inquiry, or the ‘Wine and Conversation’ ApproachChapter 10. Paul F. Tremblay: Quantitative Methods in Second Language Learning Motivation Research: Gardner’s Contributions and Some New DevelopmentsChapter 11. Jennifer Claro : Identification with External and Internal Referents: Integrativeness and the Ideal L2 SelfChapter 12. John Edwards: History, Philosophy and the Social Psychology of Language Part IV: DiscussantsChapter 13. Phil Hiver and Diane Larsen-Freeman: Motivation: It is a Relational SystemChapter 14. Elaine Horwitz: How Robert C. Gardner’s Pioneering Social-Psychological Research Raised New Applied Questions about Second Language AcquisitionEpilogueHoward Giles