Student Engagement in the Language Classroom

Through a mix of conceptual and empirical chapters, this book defines engagement for the field of language learning. It serves as an authoritative guide for anyone wishing to understand the unique insights engagement can give into language learning and teaching, or anyone conducting their own research on engagement within and beyond the classroom.

About the author

Phil Hiver is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University, USA. His research interests include instructed language learning and the role of psycho-social factors in second language teaching and learning.
Dr. Ali H. Al-Hoorie is an assistant professor at the English Language Institute, Education Sector, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. He completed his PhD degree at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professors Zoltán Dörnyei and Norbert Schmitt. He also holds an MA in Social Science Data Analysis from Essex University. His research interests include motivation theory, research methodology, and complexity. His publications have appeared in a number of journals including Language Learning, The Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, ELT J, Language Teaching Research, and Learning and Individual Differences. He is also the co-author (with Phil Hiver) of the upcoming book Research Methods for Complexity in Applied Linguistics and a co-editor (with Peter D. MacIntyre) of Contemporary Language Motivation Theory: 60 Years Since Gardner and Lambert (1959).
Sarah Mercer is Professor and Head of the ELT Research and Methodology Department at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests lie in all aspects of language learning psychology (teacher and learner perspectives), in particular in self-related constructs, engagement, agency, affect, belief systems and wellbeing.

Summary

Through a mix of conceptual and empirical chapters, this book defines engagement for the field of language learning. It serves as an authoritative guide for anyone wishing to understand the unique insights engagement can give into language learning and teaching, or anyone conducting their own research on engagement within and beyond the classroom.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ali H Al-Hoorie (Editor), Ali H. Al-Hoorie (Editor), Phil Hiver (Editor), Sarah Mercer (Editor), Mercer Sarah (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781788923606
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-360-6
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 628 g
• Series: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching; Psychology of Language Learnin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Language acquisition, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)