Directed Motivational Currents: Using vision to create effective motivational pathways

By Christine Muir, Z. Dörnyei. 2013

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Vision, that is, the mental representation of the sensory experience of a future goal state (involving imagination and imagery), is currently at the forefront of motivational innovation, and in recent years it has been seen increasingly more often in the motivational tool kit of practicing language teachers. Theories such as Dornyei’s L2 motivational self system have explored the power that creating effective visions can harness (see, e.g., Dornyei & Kubanyiova, 2014) and when viewed in conjunction with other current research avenues, such as future time perspective and dynamic systems theory, vision offers exciting potential. A Directed Motivational Current is a new motivational construct that we suggest is capable of integrating many current theoretical strands with vision: It can be described as a motivational drive which energises long-term, sustained behaviour (such as language learning), and through placing vision and goals as critical central components within this construct, it offers real and practical motivational potential. In this conceptual paper, we first discuss current understandings of vision and of Directed Motivational Currents, and then analyse how they may be optimally integrated and employed to create effective motivational pathways in language learning environments.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d59beb06c3bbd377a5e60db64e2de94467c01e79

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Alastair Henry
2. Z. Dörnyei
3. Tae-Young Kim
4. Yoon-Kyoung Kim

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Alastair Henry
2. Z. Dörnyei
3. Christine Muir
4. Zana Ibrahim
5. Ali H. Al-Hoorie
6. M. Pawlak
7. Y. Teimouri
8. Mostafa Papi

Citations in the corpus

• The Anatomy of Directed Motivational Currents: Exploring Intense and Enduring Periods of L2 Motivation (2015, background): “Because it “allows for the laying out and controlling of an intricately structured pathway” (Muir & Dörnyei, 2013, p. 369), the language classroom provides an ideal context for the creation of a DMC.”
• The Routledge handbook of English language teaching (2018, unknown): “We have also included examples of dynamic assessment procedures based on collaboration and interaction, which need to be a source of learning and development, rather than a technique for testing.”
• 'Directed Motivational Currents': Regulating Complex Dynamic Systems through Motivational Surges (2014, background): “…often aware that they are functioning at a heightened state of productivity and are able to perform with increased intensity, over and above what they may have believed possible (for more comprehensive summaries of this novel motivational concept, see Dörnyei et al., 2014; Muir & Dörnyei, 2013).”