Dear all,
here's a summary of the responses I received related to literature on "computers and motivation":
1. Pascual Cantos did his phd on the effects of call materials on students' motivation(1993) and offered to send me the paper, which is in spanish.
2. Dragos Ciobanu suggested to take a look at specialist journals, such as Computer Assisted Language Learning, Computers in Human Behaviour, Computers & Education, System, as well as proceedings of conferences such as EuroCALL. Among the authors he recommended are Carol Chapelle, Jozef Colpaert, Jan Plass, Dorothy Chun, Lars Borin and Volker Hegelheimer.
I had already searched these journals before posting the query, but did not find much on this particular subject.
as well as an article she wrote while in Madrid: "The Affective Factor of Using E-mail with Students-Modern". English Teacher-July 2002
I myself would like to add the following literature, relevant to the subject:
R.C. Gardner: Integrative Motivation. Available at:
http://publish.uwo.ca/~gardner/GardnerPublicLecture1.pdfMartin Lamb: 'Integrative motivation in a globalized world'. System. 2004.
Vol. 32. pp. 3-19
Eleni Manolopolou Sergi: 'Motivation within the information processing model
of foreign language learning'. System. 2004. Vol. 32. pp. 427-441
Madeline E. Ehrman, Betty Lou Leaver, Rebecca L. Oxford: 'A brief overview
of individual differences in second language learning'. System. 2003. Vol.
31. pp. 313-330.
Zoltan Dörnyei & Richard Schmidt (ed.): Motivation and Second Language
Acquisition. 2001.
Zoltan Dörnyei. 'Understading L2 Motivation: On with the Challenge'. The
Modern Language Journal. Vol. 78, No. 8 (Winter 1994), pp.515-523.
My search goes on. I will write back as soon as I have other reading suggestions on the topic.
Thanks for your replies.
Andreea Constantinescu
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany