Ema Ushioda
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ema Ushioda is involved.
2014 Motivation, autonomy and metacognition: Exploring their interactions Motivation and Foreign Language Learning: From theory to practice, Lasagabaster, David, Aintzane Doiz and Juan Manuel Sierra (eds.), pp. 31–49 | Article
From the perspective of sustaining long-term engagement in L2 learning, personal goals and targets are important in providing a motivational rationale. However, purposeful effortful striving may not be sufficient in itself to regulate motivation when the challenges derive from not knowing how to… read more
2014 Conceptualizing mindfulness–mindlessness in intercultural interaction International Journal of Language and Culture 1:1, pp. 75–97 | Article
The concept of ‘mindfulness’ is increasingly used in the intercultural literature and yet so far it is largely just a heterogeneous construct with underspecified theoretical content. In this paper we draw on multidisciplinary perspectives to address this shortcoming and develop an integrated… read more
2010 Motivation and SLA: Bridging the gap EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 10 (2010), Roberts, Leah, Martin Howard, Muiris Ó Laoire and David Singleton (eds.), pp. 5–20 | Article
Motivation has been a major research topic within SLA for over four decades, yet has endured a marginalized position within the field, remaining somewhat isolated from its more mainstream linguistic traditions. The analysis of motivation and its role in SLA has largely been at the level of global… read more
2007 Motivation and language Handbook of Pragmatics: 2007 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article