Abstracts Archive

Purpose: In Western contexts and languages, teacher's comments and questions during shared book reading have been found to facilitate children's vocabulary development. It is unclear to what extent such findings can be replicated in other contexts and languages, and the mechanisms of ...

This qualitative multiple case study explored the usage of a cutting-edge methodology, retrodictive qualitative modelling (RQM) (Dörnyei, 2014), in complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) research in Applied Linguistics. By tracing the motivational dynamics of four high-proficiency and low-proficien...

Phase shift is a key concept in development in CDST, for which change points can be a favorable sign. However, phase shifts remain elusive in L2 writing research due to a lack of sufficiently dense data to detect them and a lack of recognition when they occur. Moreover, even...

Guided by the L2 Motivation Self System framework and a holistic person-centred approach to L2 motivation, the present study addresses two underexplored issues-how L2 motivational patterns form and how the patterns operate and function over time. Data were collected from 125 college-level Chinese EF...

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