Volume 54 in the Second language acquisition series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

About the Authors:
Garold Murray is associate professor in the Language Education Centre, Okayama University, Japan. His research employs ethnography and narrative inquiry to explore autonomy, metacognition, and community in relation to classroom, out-of-class, and self-access language learning.
Xuesong (Andy) Gao is assistant professor at the Department of English, Hong Kong Institute of Education. His research interests include language learning strategy, learner narratives and teacher development.
Terry Lamb is based in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, England. He has published widely in the fields of learner and teacher autonomy, multilingualism, language policy, and teacher development.

1. Exploring Links between Identity, Motivation and Autonomy / Xuesong Gao and Terry Lamb

PART 1: EMERGING THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

2. Motivating Learners to Speak as Themselves /
Ema Ushioda

3. Joining Forces for Synergy: Agency and Metacognition as Interrelated Theoretical Perspectives on Learner Autonomy /
Xuesong Gao and Lawrence Jun Zhang

4. Emerging Selves, Language Learning and Motivation through the Lens of Chaos /
Liliane Assis Sade

5. Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Second Language Acquisition from the Perspective of Complex Dynamical Systems /
Vera Lucia Menezes De Oliveira E Paiva

PART 2: INDEPENDENT LEARNING SETTINGS

6. Imagination, Metacognition and the L2 Self in a Self-Access Learning Environment /
Garold Murray

7. Identity, Motivation and Plurilingualism in Self-Access Centers /
E. Desirée Castillo Zaragoza

8. ‘Why am I Doing This?’ Maintaining Motivation in Distance Language Learning /
Linda Murphy

9. Beliefs, Identity and Motivation in Implementing Autonomy: The Teacher’s Perspective /
Hayo Reinders and Noemi Lazaro

PART 3: CULTURES AND CONTEXTS

10. Identity, Motivation and Autonomy: A Tale of Two Cities /
Alice Chik and Stephan Breidbach

11. Natural Talent, Natural Acquisition and Abroad: Learner Attributions of Agency in Language Learning /
Stephen Ryan and Sarah Mercer

12. Future Selves, Motivation and Autonomy in Long-Term English Foreign Language Learning Trajectories /
Martin Lamb

13. ‘Failing’ to Achieve Autonomy in English for Medical Purposes /
Diane Malcolm

14. Crucial but Neglected: English Foreign Language Teachers’ Perspectives on Learner Motivation /
Neil Cowie and Keiko Sakui

15. A Dynamic Account of Autonomy, Agency and Identity in Teaching English as a Foreign Language Learning /
Jing Huang

16. Identity, Motivation and Autonomy: Stretching our Boundaries /
Garold Murray

Index

"In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also addresses practice in classroom, self-access, and distance education contexts, considering topics such as teachers’ views on motivation, plurilingual learning, sustaining motivation in distance education, pop culture and gaming, study abroad, and the role of agency and identity in the motivation of pre-service teachers. The book concludes with a discussion of how an approach which sees identity, motivation, and autonomy as interrelated constructs has the potential to inform theory, practice and future research directions in the field of language teaching and learning." (Book Cover)