Brent Jones - Research Interests

Second Language (L2) Learning Motivation
I became interested in this field in around 1998 after years of wondering why some language learners excel and others fail. I became more interested in this field after taking a Sociolinguistics course with Gabrielle Kasper through Temple University, Japan. The work of Robert Gardner, Zoltan Dornyei and Richard Schmidt (to name just a few) have influenced my own work and I continue to investigate L2 learning motivation and other affective variables in language learning and acquisition.

Extensive Reading
I first read about extensive reading in the May, 1997 issue of The Language Teacher and Day and Bamford (1998). The annotated bibliography maintained at the Extensive Reading website can be viewed by chronological order or alphabetical order by author.

Learner Autonomy
My interest in learner autonomy is closely related to L2 learning motivation research. This bibliography includes many of the important publications in the field.

Other Bibliographies
SLA, ESL, Bilingual Education - Maintained by the Foreign Language Teaching Forum
Second Language Acquisition - NCLE Resource Collections
CALL Bibliography - Maintained by Marcus Vaska
SLABIB - Maintained by Vivian Cook with more than 6,300 entries.

References
Day, R. R., & Bamford, J. (1998). Extensive reading in the second language classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

My Other Websites
- waei.com
- wordhunters.com
- wordhunters.com/elssi.html

For more information, email me at bjones_jp@yahoo.com.

Acknowledgments
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