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262
National Ranking
48

Overview

Zoltán Dörnyei was affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on fields within Arts and Humanities as well as Psychology, with notable work in subfields including Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main research topics covered areas such as EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition and Learning, Second Language Learning and Teaching, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Educational and Psychological Assessments, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.

Dörnyei published extensively in various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Language Teaching Research
  • Multilingual Matters eBooks
  • TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt)
  • Research methods in applied linguistics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Dörnyei include:

  • Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2021, Research methods in applied linguistics
  • The interaction of linguistic and motivational variables in second language task performance, 2023, TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt)
  • Vision enhancement and language learning: A critical analysis of vision-building in an English for Academic Purposes programme, 2021, Language Teaching Research
  • Increasing the effectiveness of teaching L2 formulaic sequences through motivational strategies and mental imagery: A classroom experiment, 2020, Language Teaching Research
  • Index, 2022, Multilingual Matters eBooks

Their collaborations included frequent co-authors such as Katarina Mentzelopoulos, Magdalena Kubanyiova, Sarah Mercer, Judit Kormos, and Alastair Henry.

Dörnyei also contributed to several book publications. These include works published by Multilingual Matters eBooks, Cambridge University Press, and Channel View Publications eBooks. Titles among these include:

  • Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency, 2022
  • Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency, 2022
  • Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms, 2020
  • Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers, 2021

Best Publications

  • Research methods in applied linguistics : quantitative,qualitative, and mixed methodologies

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Teaching and Researching Motivation

    Zoltán Dörnyei;Ema Ushioda

  • Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • 2. The L2 Motivational Self System

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Motivational Strategies in the Language Classroom

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Conceptualizing Willingness to Communicate in a L2: A Situational Model of L2 Confidence and Affiliation

    Peter D. Macintyre;Zoltán Dörnyei;Richard Clément;Kimberly A. Noels

  • Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Motivation in second and foreign language learning

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Attitudes, Orientations, and Motivations in Language Learning: Advances in Theory, Research, and Applications

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Motivation, self-confidence, and group cohesion in the foreign language classroom

    Richard Clément;Zoltán Dörnyei;Kimberly A. Noels

  • Conceptualizing Motivation in Foreign‐Language Learning*

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • Communicative Competence: A Pedagogically Motivated Model with Content Specifications

    Marianne Celce-Murcia;Zoltan Dornyei;Sarah Thurrell

  • Motivation in action: A process model of L2 motivation

    Zoltan Dornyei;Istvan Otto

  • The Psychology of the Language Learner Revisited

    Zoltan Dornyei;Stephen Ryan

  • Motivation, language identity and the L2 self

    Zoltán Dörnyei;Ema Ushioda

  • Teaching and Researching Motivation. Applied Linguistics in Action.

    Zoltan Dornyei

  • Ten commandments for motivating language learners: results of an empirical study:

    Zoltán Dörnyei;Kata Csizér

  • The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

    Zoltán Dörnyei

  • On the Teachability of Communication Strategies

    Zoltán Dörnyei

Frequent Co-Authors

Ema Ushioda
Ema Ushioda University of Warwick
Peter D. MacIntyre
Peter D. MacIntyre Cape Breton University
Judit Kormos
Judit Kormos Lancaster University
Norbert Schmitt
Norbert Schmitt University of Nottingham
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Indiana University
Richard Clément
Richard Clément University of Ottawa
Kimberly A. Noels
Kimberly A. Noels University of Alberta
Jasone Cenoz
Jasone Cenoz University of the Basque Country
Kees de Bot
Kees de Bot University of Groningen

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