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

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Ali H. Al-Hoorie is an Assistant Professor at the English Language Institute Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu Saudi Arabia. He completed his PhD at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professors Zoltán Dörnyei and Norbert Schmitt. His publications have appeared in a number of journals and he is the co-author (with Phil Hiver) of Research Methods for Complexity Theory in Applied Linguistics (Multilingual Matters 2020). Peter D. MacIntyre is Professor of Psychology at Cape Breton University Canada. His research examines emotion motivation and cognition across a variety of types of behavior including interpersonal communication public speaking dynamic systems and learning. He has published several books including Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning (co-edited with Zoltán Dörnyei and Alastair Henry).