E-raamat: Contemporary Language Motivation Theory: 60 Years Since Gardner and Lambert (1959)

This volume compiles 14 essays by language, psychology, and other scholars from North America, the Middle East, Europe, and China, including colleagues and students of Robert Gardner, who discuss aspects of contemporary language motivation theory and extensions of Gardner’s model in honor of Gardner and Lambert's 1959 paper, "Motivational Variables in Second Language Acquisition," published in the Canadian Journal of Psychology. The book begins with a chapter by Gardner on research conducted by him and his colleagues on the role of attitudes and motivation in second language acquisition between 1959 and 2019. Subsequent essays address second language development/applied linguistics, including extending Gardner's socio-educational model to learner well-being and how teachers' and learners' motivation and attitudes determine success or failure in multilingual classrooms; the emotional underpinnings of Gardner's Attitude/Motivation Test Battery and the cognitive-emotional dialectic within the social situation of development; social psychology/sociology aspects, including the implications of the socio-educational model for non-linguistic outcomes, motivations for baby-naming in multicultural contexts, the relationship between the construct of investment and Gardner’s construct of motivation in terms of identity; historical and methodological issues like time in the motivation processes of second language learners, the role of qualitative inquiry in researching second language motivation, quantitative methods, integrativeness and the ideal second-language self, and the history, philosophy, and social psychology of language; and motivation as a relational system and how Gardner’s social-psychological research has raised new questions about second language acquisition. Distributed in the US by National Book Network. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

This book unites chapters from the leaders of the language learning motivation field and demonstrates how Gardner's work is integral to a wide range of contemporary theoretical issues underlying the psychology of language. It deals with cutting-edge topics, providing a wealth of information for both students and established scholars.