Ema Ushioda explores ethical and relational complexities in research and writing practices focusing on motivation in language education.

In this talk, Professor Ema Ushioda will explore some ethical and relational complexities in our research and writing up practices when we are investigating motivation in language education. In particular, she will draw attention to the ethics in practice of our relationships with the individuals and classroom communities that we research. Professor Ushioda will consider whose motivations and interests are really at stake, and whose motivations and interests (should) ultimately matter. Her ideas are drawn from a book she has published on Language learning motivation: An ethical agenda for research (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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Ema Ushioda is a Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. She has been working in language education for over 30 years and has particular research interests in motivation and autonomy in language learning, and in qualitative methods of inquiry. Recent books include Teaching and researching motivation (co-authored by Dörnyei, Routledge 2021), Language learning motivation: An ethical agenda for research (Oxford University Press, 2020); International perspectives on motivation: Language learning and professional challenges (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Motivation, language identity and the L2 self (co-edited by Dörnyei, Multilingual Matters, 2009).