Motivation, Autonomy and Emotions in Foreign Language Learning: A Multi-Perspective Investigation in Hungary

This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. The comparative analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that have the potential to shape classroom learning in the future.

Kata Csizér is Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research focuses on foreign language learning motivation, and she is an Associate Editor of the Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching journal and Co-Editor of the monograph series Applied Linguistics in the 21st Century, published by Akadémiai Kiadó.

Ágnes Albert is Assistant Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research focuses on task-based language learning, foreign language learning-related emotions and flow, and she is an Associate Editor of the Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching journal.

Dávid Smid is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Graz, Austria. His research interests include language learner psychology, teacher psychology and positive psychology, and he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning.

Anna Zólyomi is Assistant Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research explores individual differences, implicit and explicit learning and differentiated instruction, and she is a Section Editor at GiLE Journal of Skills Development.