<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Research on motivation in the field of applied linguistics seeks to better understand how and why learners become involved in learning activities and maintain their efforts in this regard. Dörnyei provided a seminal model drawing essentially from cognitive and social psychology (Dörnyei, 2001). In the wake of his reflection, and after investigating motivation in a range of academic contexts, we are now able to present our own model, which is dynamic, weighted, and polytomic (Raby, 2007). After presenting cognitive ergonomics as a new pathway for research in second language acquisition, we shall present the results of our investigations in foreign language learning motivation in technologically enhanced contexts, outlining major methodological difficulties pertaining to this sort of this grounded research.</p></abstract>

Research on motivation in the field of applied linguistics seeks to better understand how and why learners become involved in learning activities and maintain their efforts in this regard. Dörnyei provided a seminal model drawing essentially from cognitive and social psychology (Dörnyei, 2001). In the wake of his reflection, and after investigating motivation in a range of academic contexts, we are now able to present our own model, which is dynamic, weighted, and polytomic (Raby, 2007). After presenting cognitive ergonomics as a new pathway for research in second language acquisition, we shall present the results of our investigations in foreign language learning motivation in technologically enhanced contexts, outlining major methodological difficulties pertaining to this sort of this grounded research.

Forging new pathways for research on language learning motivation

LAIRDIL, University of Toulouse 3, France

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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Research on motivation in the field of applied linguistics seeks to better understand how and why learners become involved in learning activities and maintain...

Forging new pathways for research on language learning motivation

Published Online: Jun 08, 2015

Page range: 1 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0001

Keywords
motivation, cognitive and social psychology, instructional design, cognitive ergonomics, epistemology and methodologies, triangulation

© Françoise Raby

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Forging new pathways for research on language learning motivation

Published Online: Jun 08, 2015

Page range: 1 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0001

Keywordsmotivation, cognitive and social psychology, instructional design, cognitive ergonomics, epistemology and methodologies, triangulation

© Françoise Raby

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
motivation, cognitive and social psychology, instructional design, cognitive ergonomics, epistemology and methodologies, triangulation