Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation

This volume presents the results of the largest ever language attitude/motivation study, involving over 13,000 teenage language learners in Hungary surveyed in 1993, 1999 and 2004. The results are not confined to the European context but have wider implications concerning attitude change, motivational dynamics and language globalisation.

Professor Zoltán Dörnyei, who is one of the leading international experts on L2 attitude/motivation research, led the Hungarian research team. He has written over 60 academic papers on various aspects of second language acquisition, and is the author of several books, including Teaching and Researching Motivation (2001, Longman), Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing (2003, Lawrence Erlbaum) and The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition (2005, Lawrence Erlbaum). Kata Csizér and Nóra Németh are L2 researchers and teacher trainers at the Department of English Applied Linguistics, Eötvös University, Budapest. They have published academic papers for Hungarian and international journals, including Language Teaching Research, Language Learning, The Journal of Language and Social Psychology, The Modern Language Journal and Applied Linguistics.