Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation: A Practitioner Perspective from Japan

ISBN-13: 9781783095889 Publisher: Channel View Publications Publication date: 06/02/2016 Series: Second Language Acquisition , #101 Pages: 240 Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.75(d) This book explores how complex systems theory can contribute to the understanding of classroom language learner motivation through an extended examination of one particular, situated research project. Working from the lived experience of the participants, the study describes how action research methods were used to explore the dynamic conditions operating in a foreign language classroom in Japan. The book draws attention to the highly personalised and individual, yet equally co-formed nature of classroom foreign language learning motivation and to the importance of agency and emotions in language learning. It presents an extended illustration of the applicability of complex systems theory for research design and process in SLA and its narrative approach shines light upon the evolving nature of res