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Overview

Ema Ushioda is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research work spans across the fields of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, with a focus on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Education, and Linguistics and Language.

Their main research topics include:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Student Assessment and Feedback

Ema Ushioda has published work in several academic venues, including:

  • Language Teaching
  • Language Learning Journal
  • Language Learning
  • System
  • Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Recent papers by Ushioda include:

  • "Negotiating Identity tensions in multilingual learning in China: a situated perspective on language learning motivation and multilingual identity" (2021, Language Learning Journal)
  • "Second Language Learning via Syntactic Priming: Investigating the Role of Modality, Attention, and Motivation" (2022, Language Learning)
  • "Learning multiple L2 syntactic structures via chat-based alignment: What is the role of learners' prior knowledge and conscious decisions?" (2022, System)
  • "Ema Ushioda's essential bookshelf: Teacher engagement with classroom motivation research" (2022, Language Teaching)
  • "Using motigraphs to investigate the temporalities of motivation: Illustrating contrasting approaches" (2025, Research Methods in Applied Linguistics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ushioda include:

  • Richard Pinner
  • Marion Coumel
  • Katherine Messenger
  • Zi Wang
  • Troy McConachy

Best Publications

  • Teaching and Researching Motivation

    Zoltán Dörnyei;Ema Ushioda

  • Motivation, language identity and the L2 self

    Zoltán Dörnyei;Ema Ushioda

  • A person-in-context relational view of emergent motivation, self and identity

    Ema Ushioda

  • The role of motivation

    Ema Ushioda

  • Language learning motivation, self and identity: current theoretical perspectives

    Ema Ushioda

  • Motivation and good language learners

    Ema Ushioda

  • Motivation, language identities and the L2 self: a theoretical overview

    Zoltán Dörnyei;Ema Ushioda

  • Teaching and Researching Motivation : New Directions for Language Learning

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  • Motivating learners to speak as themselves

    Ema Ushioda

  • Motivation as a socially mediated process

    Ema Ushioda

  • Effective motivational thinking: A cognitive theoretical approach to the study of language learning motivation

    Ema Ushioda

  • Language learning at university: Exploring the role of motivational thinking

    Ema Ushioda

  • Developing a dynamic concept of L2 motivation

    Ema Ushioda

  • Language Motivation in a Reconfigured Europe: Access, Identity, Autonomy

    Ema Ushioda

  • The Impact of Global English on Motivation to Learn Other Languages: Toward an Ideal Multilingual Self

    Ema Ushioda

  • Beyond global English : motivation to learn languages in a multicultural world : Introduction to the Special Issue

    Ema Ushioda;Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Learner autonomy 5 : The role of motivation

    Ema Ushioda

  • Context and complex dynamic systems theory

    Ema Ushioda

  • Language learning motivation through a small lens: A research agenda

    Ema Ushioda

  • Why autonomy? Insights from motivation theory and research

    Ema Ushioda

  • Motivation, autonomy and sociocultural theory

    Ema Ushioda

Frequent Co-Authors

Zoltán Dörnyei
Zoltán Dörnyei University of Nottingham
Richard J.H. Smith
Richard J.H. Smith University of Iowa

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