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Gender differences in patients with severe dental infections presenting to hospital
Introduction Gender differences have been documented in prevalence and morbidity of caries, gingivitis and oral health, but not previously in cervicofacial infection. Identification and minimisation of gender in...
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Teachers’ Relational Practices and Students’ Motivation
Language learning is a social practice. At a minimum level, it involves interaction with others. As applied linguistics shifts into a social era, psychological constructs such as motivation and willingness to ...
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Introduction: Engaging with Work in Worlds of Change
In a globalized world, English Studies is in need of transformation. Serving as an introduction to the anthology, this chapter makes the case for an issue-based approach to English Studies where engagement is ...
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Authenticity at Work: English Teachers’ Experiences of Authentic and Inauthentic Acting
For teachers, self-reflection involves the questions ‘who am I as a teacher?’ and ‘how am I as a teacher?’ While the ‘who’ question involves teacher identity, the ‘how’ question involves self-authenticity. Thi...
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Working with Identity Work: Supporting Professional Identity Development in Teacher Education
The development of a coherent sense of self as a teacher often emerges from tensions between multiple and competing identities. While grappling with these tensions can be stressful, and sometimes demoralizing,...
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L2 Motivation and Digital Technologies
This chapter uses Self Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, Intrinsic motivation and self-determination in human behaviour. New York: Plenum Press, 1985) as a lens through which to review research describing motiva...
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Introduction
In this introduction the editors suggest that the field of L2 motivation research has now achieved a degree of maturity, in terms of scale and diversity of scholarly output, and that it warrants publication of...
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Directed Motivational Currents: Extending the Theory of L2 Vision
This chapter introduces the idea of directed motivational currents (DMCs), and maps out the conceptual antecedents. Explaining how the construct is an extension of Dörnyei’s theory of L2 vision, it describes t...
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Becoming a Process Researcher of One’s Own Development: Using an Identity Map** Model to Make Sense of Transformation Dynamics During the Practicum
Inspired by Steenbeek and van Geert’s (2015) proposal that teachers need to become process researchers of their own development, and making use of methods of retroduction, the innovation we present comes in th...
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Digital Games and ELT: Bridging the Authenticity Gap
In this chapter I will suggest that in cultural contexts such as Sweden, where English is an integral part of young people’s everyday lives and is encountered and used in a range of out-of-school domains, a pa...
