Dávid Smid

Toward an Understanding of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Motivation: The Case of Hungary


Chapter Summary

In Study 1, first, I sought to explore university students’ experiences related to the past, present, and future dimensions of their pre-service English teacher identity. The findings indicated an intricate link between the participants’ psychology and the social world in which they were embedded. That is, empirical evidence was found for the interrelationships among cognitive, emotional, motivational, and social processes, which enabled a more holistic understanding of the target construct. The given processes could be captured with the help of various concepts reviewed in the literature, namely, goal orientation, autonomy, self-regulation, perception of competence (Ryan & Deci, 2000, 2020); attitude (Gardner, 1985); future L2 teacher self (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009a; Kubanyiova, 2009); love, enjoyment, hope, disappointment (Pekrun, 2014; Pekrun et al., 2007); L2 anxiety (Horwitz et al., 1986), and L2 shame (Galmiche, 2017). The intricate web of interrelationships can best be explained with the help of the socio-dynamic approach to L2 learning motivation, in which the target construct is assumed to have a complex (i.e., multilayered and multivariate) nature (see Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2013; but also Larsen-Freeman, 1997).

Toward an Understanding of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Motivation: The Case of Hungary

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2022

ISBN: 978 963 454 818 8

In this monograph, the findings of a mixed-methods, multi-perspective empirical study targeting the motivation of Hungarian pre-service English teachers are presented and discussed. When it comes to the Hungarian context, the importance of the topic is indicated by issues, such as the ongoing workforce shortage in the public education sector and the latest reforming of the initial teacher education system. The present investigation sheds light on the complexity of Hungarian pre-service English teachers’ motivation, which was found to be a bipartite construct interrelated with cognitive, emotional, and social processes. It also offers insights into the motivating capacity of the undivided pre-service English teacher education program as well as the extent to which the initial teacher education system is effective with respect to its student recruitment policy. As such, this monograph might be beneficial to researchers, university instructors, mentor teachers, and educational policymakers alike.

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