“Motivation as individual differences and task conditions from a regulatory focus perspective” – Dr Yeji Han and Professor Kim McDonough

The potential for pedagogical intervention that draws upon students’ motivational strengths without requiring additional class time could help bridge the gap between individual differences research and L2 pedagogy.

– Han and McDonough (4)

This article by Dr Yeji Han and Professor Kim McDonough focuses on motivation for Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Han and McDonough explore the effectiveness of communicative tasks on Korean L2 speakers’ complexity, accuracy, fluency, and lexical dysfluency.

This study helped bridge between L2 motivation theory and teaching practice by drawing upon the regulatory focus framework to create tasks that encouraged either promotion and prevention focus.

– Han and McDonough (8)

This article can be downloaded via York St John institutional access here.