LINGUIST List 15.486

Thu Feb 5 2004

Books: Applied Linguistics: Dornyei (Ed.)

Editor for this issue: Neil Salmond <neillinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. jobrien, Attitudes, Orientations, and Motivations in Language Learning: Dornyei (Ed.)

Title: Attitudes, Orientations, and Motivations in Language Learning
Series Title: Best of Language Learning
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
			
Book URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=140511116X&site=1 

Editor: Zoltan Dornyei, University of Nottingham 

Paperback: ISBN: 140511116X, Pages: 224, Price: $36.95
			

Abstract:

Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine
the rate and success of language learning. This volume addresses
motivation in language learning - motives associated with certain
features of the language, the language learner, and the learning
situation.

-Discusses and dissects the intriguingly complex characteristic of
 motivation in the process of language learning.

-Explores recent developments and the most important research
 directions in the field, including a selection of data-based studies
 by some of the best-known motivation researchers.


Lingfield(s):	Applied Linguistics 			 

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)


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