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From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures (2023)
Journal Article
Cassaday, H. J., Muir, C., Stevenson, C. W., Bonardi, C., Hock, R., & Waite, L. (2023). From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 202, Article 107757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107757

Inhibitory associative learning counters the effects of excitatory learning, whether appetitively or aversively motivated. Moreover, the affective responses accompanying the inhibitory associations are of opponent valence to the excitatory conditione... Read More about From safety to frustration: The neural substrates of inhibitory learning in aversive and appetitive conditioning procedures.

Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy (2020)
Book
Muir, C. (2020). Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy. Multilingual Matters

Directed motivational currents (DMCs) are goal-directed motivational surges in pursuit of a much-desired personal outcome. This book introduces the reader to cutting-edge theory and research in second language learner motivation and presents empirica... Read More about Directed Motivational Currents and Language Education: Exploring Implications for Pedagogy.

Motivation and projects (2020)
Book Chapter
Muir, C. (2020). Motivation and projects. In M. Lamb, K. Csizer, A. Henry, & S. Ryan (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning (327-346). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28380-3_16

This chapter explores the motivational possibilities arising from the inclusion of projects in second language (L2) classrooms. After offering a definition of the term, Muir presents a brief critique of projects both in general education and rooted i... Read More about Motivation and projects.

Creating a Motivating Classroom Environment (2019)
Book Chapter
Dörnyei, Z., & Muir, C. (2019). Creating a Motivating Classroom Environment. In X. Gao (Ed.), Second Handbook of English Language Teaching (719-736). Springer

This chapter addresses the complex question of what makes a motivating classroom environment. Understanding the full psychological tapestry of classroom life calls for an interdisciplinary approach and, accordingly, this chapter draws on research fro... Read More about Creating a Motivating Classroom Environment.

Role models in language learning: Results of a large-scale international survey (2019)
Journal Article
Muir, C., Dörnyei, Z., & Adolphs, S. (2021). Role models in language learning: Results of a large-scale international survey. Applied Linguistics, 42(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amz056

Role models can exert considerable influence in shaping individuals’ values, attitudes and beliefs. A large body of work in the social sciences has investigated the influence of celebrity role models, and in the context of education several disciplin... Read More about Role models in language learning: Results of a large-scale international survey.

Digital innovations in L2 motivation: harnessing the power of the Ideal L2 Self (2018)
Journal Article
Adolphs, S., Clark, L., Dörnyei, Z., Glover, T., Henry, A., Muir, C., Sánchez-Lozano, E., & Valstar, M. (in press). Digital innovations in L2 motivation: harnessing the power of the Ideal L2 Self. System, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.07.014

Sustained motivation is crucial to learning a second language (L2), and one way to support this can be through the mental visualisation of ideal L2 selves (Dörnyei & Kubanyiova, 2014). This paper reports on an exploratory study which investigated the... Read More about Digital innovations in L2 motivation: harnessing the power of the Ideal L2 Self.

Directed Motivational Currents: Energising language learning by creating intense motivational pathways (2014)
Book Chapter
Dörnyei, Z., Muir, C., & Ibrahim, Z. (2014). Directed Motivational Currents: Energising language learning by creating intense motivational pathways. In D. Lasagabaster, A. Doiz, & J. M. Sierra (Eds.), Motivation and foreign language learning: From theory to practice (9-29). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.40.01dor

In this chapter, we introduce a novel psychological construct whose key aspects are well-established in major motivation theories. A Directed Motivational Current (DMC) is a conceptual framework which depicts unique periods of intensive motivational... Read More about Directed Motivational Currents: Energising language learning by creating intense motivational pathways.