iranian efl learners’ motivation construction: integrative motivation revisited
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although gardner and his associates’ work was most influential in the field of l2 motivation, from the early 1990s onwards, their work has been criticized for several reasons. some researchers claimed that integrative and instrumental orientations were no longer able to convey the complexity of the l2 motivation construct. to examine this complexity, the present study attempted to investigate the discursive construction of four (two males and two females) iranian efl learners’ motivation at shiraz university, iran. employing van leeuwen’s (2008) legitimation construction framework, the study revealed that depending on their future selves, each participant employed certain discursive strategies unique to him/her to (de)legitimize his/her future self. therefore, what was observed was the use of strategies which were idiosyncratic to that particular person, in that particular context, for a specific purpose, and for that particular moment. additionally, given the unique political conditions of iran in the world, it was found that integrative and instrumental orientations can be best replaced by ideal and ought-to selves in this context. the study has some implications. motivation researchers need to broaden the unit of analysis beyond the individual learner to the interaction between the individual and the multitude of factors in diverse social settings.
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issues in language teachingPublisher: allameh tabataba’i university
ISSN 2322-3715
volume 2
issue 1 2013
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