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Special issue: Language learning experience: The neglected element in L2 motivation research Guest editors: Kata Csizér Csaba Kálmán Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz Volume 9, Number 1, March 2019 http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt Contents Notes on Contributors ....................................................................... 9 Editorial .......................................................................................... 13 Articles: Zoltán Dörnyei – Towards a better understanding of the L2 Learning Experience, the Cinderella of the L2 Motivational Self System ......... 19 Alastair Henry, Cecilia Thorsen – Weaving webs of connection: Empathy, perspective taking, and students’ motivation ................................... 31 Liana Maria Pavelescu – Motivation and emotion in the EFL learning experience of Romanian adolescent students: Two contrasting cases ..... 55 Phil Hiver, Gabriel Obando, Yuan Sang, Somayeh Tahmouresi, Ashlee Zhou, Yang Zhou – Reframing the L2 learning experience as narrative reconstructions of classroom learning .............................................. 83 Xujia Du – The impact of semester-abroad experiences on post-sojourn L2 motivation................................................................................... 117 Keita Kikuchi – Motivation and demotivation over two years: A case study of English language learners in Japan ............................................. 157 Julian Pigott – Anagnorisis and narrative incorporation: How significant incidents affect language-learning behavior .................................. 177 Nigel Gearing – Korean language learning demotivation among EFL instructors in South Korea ............................................................... 199 Kata Csizér, Csaba Kálmán – A study of retrospective and concurrent foreign language learning experiences: A comparative interview study in Hungary ...225 Notes to Contributors .....................................................................247 9 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt Notes on Contributors Kata Csizér, PhD, works at the Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Her main field of research interest is the socio psychological aspects of second language learning and teaching as well as second and foreign language motivation. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1755-8142 Contact details: Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Rákóczi út 5, 1088 Budapest, Hungary (weinkata@yahoo.com) Zoltán Dörnyei is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK. He has published extensively on various aspects of language learner characteristics and second language acquisition, and he is the author of over 25 books, including The Psychology of The Language Learner Revisited (2015, Routledge, with S. Ryan) and Motivational Currents in Language Learning: Frame- works for Focused Interventions (2016, Routledge, with A. Henry and C. Muir). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-1254 Contact details: School of English, University of Nottingham, University Park, Not- tingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom (zoltan.dornyei@nottingham.ac.uk) Xujia Du is a researcher in the School of Foreign Studies at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She recently finished her PhD studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include internationalization and study abroad, L2 motivation, identity, complexity theories, qualitative and mixed methods research. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5485-7283 Contact details: Red Tile Building 617, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, No. 777 Guoding Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, PR China (du.xujia@hotmail.com) 10 Nigel Gearing has a PhD in applied linguistics from Macquarie University, Sydney, Aus- tralia. His research interests include factors that affect the motivation of individuals to acquire second and additional languages in a globalizing world. He is currently a re- search assistant at Macquarie University, compiling the findings of the research pro- ject entitled Multilingual Sydney: Whose Sydney? Whose Multilingualism? ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1520-7461 Contact details: Department of Linguistics, Second Way, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia (nigelgear62@gmail.com) Alastair Henry is Professor of Language Education at University West, Sweden. His research focuses on the psychology of language learning and teaching. With Zoltán Dörnyei and Peter MacIntrye he is the co-editor of Motivational Dynamics in Lan- guage Learning (2015, Multilingual Matters), and with Martin Lamb, Kata Csizér and Stephen Ryan, he is a co-editor of The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning (2019, Palgrave MacMillan). With Zoltán Dörnyei and Chris- tine Muir, he co-wrote Motivational Currents in Language Learning: Frameworks for Focused Interventions (2016, Routledge). His work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Language Learning and Modern Language Journal. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7789-9032 Contact details: University West, Gustava Melins, gata 2, 461 32 Trollhättan, Swe- den (alastair.henry@hv.se) Phil Hiver holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham. He is Assistant Profes- sor of Foreign and Second Language Education at Florida State University, USA. His published research focuses on psycho-social factors in instructed language learning and language teaching, and on the contribution of complexity theory to second language development and second language research methods. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2004-7960 Contact details: G128 Stone Building, College of Education, Florida State Univer- sity, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA (phiver@fsu.edu) Csaba Kálmán, PhD, works at the Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, at Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary. His re- search interests include second and foreign language motivation, adult education, and corporate language education. He has been running his own business offering a variety of corporate language training and skills courses for over two decades, and has extensive experience as a language teacher and trainer in corporate contexts. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-8637 11 Contact details: Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Rákóczi út 5, 1088 Budapest, Hun- gary (csabakalman73@gmail.com) Keita Kikuchi is Professor at Kanagawa University, Japan. He holds an EdD from Temple University and an MA in ESL from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA. His research interests include curriculum development and second lan- guage acquisition, especially individual differences. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0328-5331 Contact details: Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1 Rok- kakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 221-8686, Japan (keita@kan agawa-u.ac.jp) Gabriel Obando is Associate Professor at the Linguistics and Languages Depart- ment at Universidad de Nariño, Colombia. He is pursuing a PhD in foreign and second language education at Florida State University, USA. His research inter- ests include TBLT from a complexity theory perspective, student wellbeing and learning experiences. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-9290 Contact details: G128 Stone Building, College of Education, Florida State Univer- sity, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA (gvo16b@my.fsu.edu) Liana Maria Pavelescu is an ESOL teacher at Guildford College, UK. She holds a PhD in language teaching from Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her main research interests are emotion and motivation in foreign language learning, the psychology of language learning, and professional development in foreign language teaching. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1564-9139 Contact details: Guildford College, Stoke Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 1EZ, UK (lpavelescu@guildford.ac.uk) Julian Pigott received his PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Warwick, UK in 2016. He lives and teaches in Kyoto, Japan. His theoretical interests include language learning motivation, educational philosophy and educational policy. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2073-7475 Contact details: Department of Global Studies, Ryukoku University, 67 Tsukamoto- cho, Fukakusa, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. 612-8577 (pigott@world.ryukoku.ac.jp) Yuan Sang is a doctoral student of foreign and second language education at Florida State University, USA. His research interests are on the language socialization of 12 Chinese students learning English as an L2 and on the contribution of language socialization to L2 instruction and English teacher education. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2889-1223 Contact details: G128 Stone Building, College of Education, Florida State Univer- sity, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA (ys13f@my.fsu.edu) Somayeh Tahmouresi is a doctoral student in foreign and second language ed- ucation at Florida State University, USA. Her areas of research interest include instructed SLA, individual differences such as L2 motivation and L2 writing. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4505-6652 Contact details: G128 Stone Building, College of Education, Florida State Univer- sity, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA (st17@my.fsu.edu) Cecilia Thorsen is Senior Lecturer in education at University West, Sweden. Alongside work on language learning psychology, her research focuses on educational attain- ment, student resilience, and assessment practices. In addition to a number of SLA journals, her work has appeared in British Journal of Educational Psychology, Educa- tional Research and Evaluation, and Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-3942 Contact details: University West, Gustava Melins, gata 2, 461 32 Trollhättan, Sweden (cecilia.thorsen@hv.se) Ashlee Zhou is a doctoral student in foreign and second language education at Florida State University, USA. Her research focuses on individual differences in second language learning and teaching specifically on topics such as self-regu- lation, engagement, and language learning strategies. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0114-4703 Contact details: G128 Stone Building, College of Education, Florida State Univer- sity, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA (sz16h@my.fsu.edu) Yang Zhou is a doctoral student in foreign and second language education at Florida State University, USA. His research focuses on the role of motivation and personality on different aspects of second language learning, particularly on ESL learners’ pronunciation learning performance and strategies. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6793-7330 Contact details: G128 Stone Building, College of Education, Florida State Univer- sity, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA (yz17c@my.fsu.edu)