Researching complex dynamic systems: ‘Retrodictive qualitative modelling’ in the language classroom

By Z. Dörnyei. Language Teaching, 2011

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Foreign language aptitude theory: Yesterday, today and tomorrow (2016, background): “…grammar points; more strongly with explicit than implicit instruction and feedback and to the newly proposed L2 Self and Dynamic Systems theory (DST) model (Dörnyei 2009, 2010, 2014; Dörnyei, MacIntyre & Henry 2015) and the latest theory of directed motivational currents (DMCs) (Dörnyei,…”
'Directed Motivational Currents': Regulating Complex Dynamic Systems through Motivational Surges (2014, background): “In an attempt to offer a solution to this potential limitation for research, Dörnyei (2014) has outlined three possible pathways that may allow for the meaningful and systematic study of motivational dynamics: (a) focusing on strong attractor-governed phenomena that regulate the system, (b)…”
Language Learner Motivational Types: A Cluster Analysis Study (2014, methodology): “The ﬁndings can also be interpreted within the dynamic system theory recommended by D¨ornyei (2014) for researching L2 motivation.”
Investigating language learning strategies: Prospects, pitfalls and challenges (2019, methodology): “The most promising include: (1) retrodictive qualitative modeling (Dörnyei, 2014), where current patterns of strategy use can be accounted for in terms of prior experiences (see Oxford, 2017), (2) the idiodynamic method (MacIntyre & Legatto, 2011), where LLS use could be explored on a second-by-seco”
Willingness to communicate in the L2 about meaningful photos: Application of the pyramid model of WTC (2021, background): “Dörnyei (2014) suggested that a system can be considered complex or dynamic if ‘it has at least two or more elements that are interlinked with each other, but which also change independently over time’ (p. 81).”
Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning: Change, Stability, and Context. (2014, background): “…reality the system’s self-organising function results in a limited number of outcomes; that is, “even very complex systems tend to arrive at certain salient outcomes, and although we cannot predict in advance what these outcomes might be, when we see them we recognise them” (Dörnyei, 2014, p. 85).”