Resources

Further Reading

Motivation

Dornyei, Z. (2005). The psychology of the language learner. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Graham, C. R. (1984). Beyond integrative motivation: The development and influence of assimilative motivation. In P. Larson, E. L. Judd, & S. Messsersmitt (Eds.), On TESOL '84, A brave new world for TESOL. Washington, DC: TESOL.

MacIntyre, P. D. (2007). Willingness to communicate in the second language: understanding the decision to speak as a volitional process. The Modern Language Journal, 91, 564–576.

Foreign Language Anxiety

Horwitz, E. K. (1996). Even teachers get the blues: Recognizing and alleviating nonnative teachers' feelings of foreign language anxiety. Foreign Language Annals, 29, 365–372.

Horwitz, E. K., M. Tallon & H. Luo (2009). Foreign language anxiety. In J. C. Cassady (ed.), Anxiety in schools: The causes, consequences, and solutions for academic anxieties. New York: Peter Lang.

MacIntyre, P. D. (2007). Willingness to communicate in the second language: understanding the decision to speak as a volitional process. The Modern Language Journal, 91, 564-576.

Mejias, H., Applbaum, R. L., Applbaum, S. J., & Trotter, R. T. (1991). Oral communication apprehension and Hispanics: An exploration of oral communication apprehension of Mexican American students in Texas. In E. K. Horwitz & D. J. Young (Eds.). Language anxiety: From theory and research to classroom implications. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.