Kedi Simpson and Heath Rose
10Equifinality Approach to Exploring the Learning Trajectories of Language Learners and Teachers
Takumi Aoyama and Takenori Yamamoto
Ryo Nitta and Yoshiyuki Nakata
12Investigating Group-DMCs and Complexity in the L2 Classroom
Christine Muir
13The Complexity Lens: Autoethnography and Practitioner Research to Examine Group Dynamics
Richard S. Pinner
Alastair Henry
15Using Microgenetic and Frame Analysis in Language Teacher Cognition Research
Anne Feryok
16Doing Complexity Research in the Language Classroom: A Commentary
Ema Ushioda
Contributors
Takumi Aoyama is an Assistant Professor of English language education at Shinshu University, Japan. He received his MA in English Language Teaching from the University of Warwick in 2016, where he is currently pursuing his PhD in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. His current research interests include Japanese EFL learners’ motivation, language learning experience and research methods for second language research. Also, he is presently co-organizing the Forum on Language Learning Motivation (FOLLM) with Sal Consoli.
Sal Consoli is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Newcastle University. Before joining Newcastle, he taught on the BA and MA in TESOL & Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. His research interests are concerned with EAP practice and policy, internationalization of higher education, motivational psychology for teaching and learning, and research ethics. His work sits within the epistemological and methodological traditions of narrative inquiry and practitioner research (i.e. Action Research and Exploratory Practice). Sal is co-founder of the Forum on Language Learning Motivation (FOLLM) and serves on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL).
Joseph Falout authored or co-authored over 50 papers and book chapters about language learning psychology. He received awards for publications and presentations from the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT). He edits for JALT’s OnCUE Journal and Asian EFL Journal. Collaborations include creating theoretical and applied foundations of critical participatory looping, present communities of imagining and ideal classmates. An associate professor at Nihon University (Japan), Joseph teaches EAP and ESP to graduate and undergraduate students, and he conducts workshops for teachers at all educational levels. He has taught rhetoric and composition, public speaking and ESL at colleges in the USA.
Anne Feryok is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research area is language teacher cognition and development. Most of it uses Vygotskian sociocultural theory, which has influenced her occasional cautious forays into complex dynamic systems theory. Her work has been published in international journals such as Modern Language Journal, Language Teaching Research, System and Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice.
Christina Gkonou is Associate Professor of TESOL and MA TESOL Programme Leader in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. She convenes postgraduate modules on teacher education and development, and on psychological aspects surrounding the foreign language learning and teaching experience. She is the co-editor of New Directions in Language Learning Psychology (with Sarah Mercer and Dietmar Tatzl) and New Insights into Language Anxiety: Theory, Research and Educational Implications (with Jean-Marc Dewaele and Mark Daubney), and co-author of MYE: Managing Your Emotions Questionnaire (with Rebecca L. Oxford). Her new book, entitled The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching (co-edited with Jean-Marc Dewaele and Jim King) was published in May 2020.
Tammy Gregersen, a Professor of TESOL at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, received her MA in Education and PhD in Linguistics in Chile, where she began her academic career. She is co-author, with Peter MacIntyre, of Capitalizing on Language Learners’ Individuality and Optimizing Language Learners’ Nonverbal Behavior. She is also a co-editor with Peter and Sarah Mercer of Positive Psychology in SLA and Innovations in Language Teacher Education. She has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and contributed several chapters in applied linguistics anthologies on individual differences, teacher education, language teaching methodology and nonverbal communication in language classrooms.
Alastair Henry is Professor of Language Education at University West, Sweden. He has carried out a number of studies using CDST methodologies. In addition to teacher identity development, this research has focused on L2 motivation and, most recently, willingness to communicate. With Zoltán Dörnyei and Peter MacIntyre he is the co-editor of Motivational Dynamics in Language Learning (2015, Multilingual Matters).
Jim King is based at the University of Leicester where he directs the institution’s campus-based postgraduate courses in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language. His books include the monograph Silence in the Second Language Classroom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and the edited volumes The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching (with Christina Gkonou and Jean-Marc Dewaele, Multilingual Matters, 2020) and East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education (with Seiko Harumi, Multilingual Matters, 2020).
Peter D. MacIntyre is Professor of Psychology at Cape Breton University. He earned his PhD from the University of Western Ontario and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the psychology of language learning and communication. Peter has published over 100 articles and chapters on language anxiety, willingness to communicate, motivation and other topics. He has co-authored or co-edited books on topics including research-driven pedagogy, contemporary motivation research, positive psychology in second-language acquisition, motivational dynamics, nonverbal communication, teaching innovations and capitalizing on language learner individuality. Peter has received awards for teaching excellence (Atlantic Association of Universities), the Gardner Award (International Association for Language and Social Psychology), the Mildenberger Prize (Modern Language Association) for contributions to the study of language, and awards for service to students and the community.
Sarah Mercer is Professor of Foreign Language Teaching at the University of Graz, Austria, where she is Head of ELT methodology. Her research interests include all aspects of the psychology surrounding the foreign language learning experience. She is the author, co-author and co-editor of several books in this area. She has been Principal Investigator on various funded research projects. She is currently vice-president