Kata Csizér is Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research focuses on foreign language learning motivation, and she is Associate Editor of the Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching journal and Co-Editor of the monograph series Applied Linguistics in the 21st Century, published by Akadémiai Kiadó.Dávid Smid is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Graz, Austria. His research interests include language learner psychology, teacher psychology and positive psychology, and he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning.Anna Zólyomi is Assistant Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research explores individual differences, implicit and explicit learning and differentiated instruction, and she is Section Editor at GiLE Journal of Skills Development.Ágnes Albert is Assistant Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research focuses on task-based language learning, foreign language learning-related emotions and flow, and she is Associate Editor of the Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching journal.

This book presents a large-scale rigorously designed and executed mixed-methods project, giving insights into hitherto unexplored areas of individual differences. Based on the intriguing results of the survey and the teacher interview data, the authors offer hands-on pedagogical suggestions that are relevant far beyond the Hungarian context. The volume is a must-have for research students, scholars and practitioners interested in individual differences and the methods that can be applied to study them.

• TablesAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Context and the Research Study Chapter 3. The Theoretical Background of the StudyChapter 4. Methods      Chapter 5. Results and Discussion: Dispositions and Views of Participants          Chapter 6. Results and Discussion: Teachers’ Views of the IndividualChapter 7. Results and Discussion: Student ProfilesChapter 8. Results and Discussion: The Comparative Analysis of Student and Teacher Perspectives  Chapter 9. Conclusion   AppendicesReferencesIndex