Zoltán Dörnyei

The native form of this personal name is Dörnyei Zoltán. This article uses the Western name order.

Zoltán Dörnyei (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈzoltaːn ˈdørɲɛi]) is a Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom[1]. He is renowned for his work on motivation in second language learning. He has published numerous books and papers on motivation in second language acquisition. He was educated in Hungary and completed his Phd at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

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Career

He began his career at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Zoltán has received the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize of the Modern Language Association of America and the TESOL Distinguished Research Award[2].

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  1. ^ "School of English Studies". The University of Nottingham. 15 June 2011. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/zoltan.dornyei. 
  2. ^ "Centre for Applied Linguistics". Warwick University. 15 June 2011. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/conferences/wpgc2008/prog/. 
  3. ^ Dörnyei, Zoltán (2008). The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford University Press. pp. 356. ISBN 9780194421973. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/27227/subject/AppliedLinguistics/?view=usa&ci=9780194421973. 
  4. ^ Dörnyei, Zoltán (2007). Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press. pp. 336. ISBN 9780194422581. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/EnglishLanguageLearningESL/?view=usa&ci=9780194422581. 
  5. ^ Dörnyei, Zoltán (2005). The Psychology of the Language Learner. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 280. ISBN 9780805860184. http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-linguistics/second-language-acquisition/the-psychology-of-the-language-learner.html. 
  6. ^ Dörnyei, Zoltán (2001). Teaching and Researching Motivation. Pearson ESL. pp. 304. ISBN 0582382386. http://catalogue.pearsoned.co.uk/catalog/academic/product?ISBN=9781408205020. 

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