Energising Directed Motivational Currents through Learners' Agency

This book attempts to demystify concerns surrounding a novel motivational construct known as a Directed Motivational Current. The study aimed at exploring whether a high sense of efficacy may support a person in transforming short-spanned motivational episodes into longitudinal engagement typical for the DMC framework. To this end, a sequential exploratory mixed methodology was used. Subsequently, a link between well-anchored efficacy beliefs and the rate at which DMCs occur was indeed discovered. This was further reinforced by the outcomes of personalised interviews. Eventually, the research yielded several noteworthy conclusions, including the fact that imbuing the DMC structure with elements of efficacy building may lead to long-term, sustained behaviour in a foreign language classroom.

List of contents

long-term motivation - individual variables - DMC - self-efficacy - second language acquisition - qualitative analysis - quantitative analysis

About the author

Arkadiusz Pietluch is a research associate at the University of Rzeszów, where he currently teaches subjects such as phonetics, phonology, and practical English. His areas of academic interest include bilingualism and the impact of psychological variables on human cognition.

Product details

• Authors: Arkadiusz Pietluch
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2021
• EAN: 9783631851005
• ISBN: 978-3-631-85100-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 21 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 448 g
• Illustrations: 14 Abb.
• Series: Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures