Resources
On this page, we offer some suggestions of resources on student engagement. We would love to receive your recommendations too. If you wish to share your research or reading tips/websites with us, please get in touch.
Presentations
Mercer, S. (2020). The foundations of engagement: a positive classroom culture. Cambridge University Press ELT.
Books
Christenson, S., Reschly, A. L., & Wylie, C. (2012). Handbook of research on student engagement. Springer.
Hiver, P., Al-Hoorie, A. H., & Mercer, S. (Eds.). Student engagement in the language classroom. Multilingual Matters.
Mercer, S., & Dörnyei, Z. (2020). Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms. Cambridge University Press.
Journal articles
Aubrey, S., King, J., & Almukhalid, H. (2020). Language learner engagement during speaking tasks: A longitudinal study. RELC Journal, 0033688220945418.
Dao, P., Nguyen, M.X.N.C., & Iwashita, N. (2019). Teachers’ perceptions of learner engagement in L2 classroom task-based interaction. The Language Learning Journal, 49(6), 711-724.
Dao, P., & Sato, M. (2021). Exploring fluctuations in the relationship between learners’ positive emotional engagement and their interactional behaviours. Language Teaching Research, 25(6), 972-994.
Egbert, J.L. (2020). The new normal? A pandemic of task engagement in language learning. Foreign Language Annals, 53, 314–319.
Hiver, P., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Vitta, J. P., & Wu, J. (2021). Engagement in language learning: A systematic review of 20 years of research methods and definitions. Language Teaching Research, 13621688211001289.
Hoi, V. N. (2022). A synergetic perspective on students’ perception of classroom environment, expectancy value belief, and engagement in an EFL context. Language Teaching Research, 13621688221075781.
Lambert, C., & Zhang, G. (2019). Engagement in the use of English and Chinese as foreign languages: The role of learner-generated content in instructional task design. The Modern Language Journal, 103, 391–411.
Lambert, C., Philp, J., & Nakamura, S. (2017). Learner-generated content and engagement in second language task performance. Language Teaching Research, 21, 665–680.
Mystkowska-Wiertelak, A. (2020). Teachers’ accounts of learners’ engagement and disaffection in the language classroom. The Language Learning Journal, 1-23.
Oga-Baldwin, W.L.Q. (2019). Acting, thinking, feeling, making: The engagement process in language education. System, 86, 102–120.
Philp, J., & Duchesne, S. (2016). Exploring engagement in tasks in the language classroom. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 36, 50–72.
Sulis, G. (2022). Engagement in the foreign language classroom: Micro and macro perspectives. System, 110, 102902.
Teravainen-Goff, A. (2022). Why motivated learners might not engage in language learning: An exploratory interview study of language learners and teachers. Language Teaching Research, 13621688221135399.
Book chapters
Baralt, M., Gurzynski-Weiss, L., & Kim, Y. (2016). Engagement with language: How examining learners’ affective and social engagement explains successful learner-generated attention to form. In Sato, M., & S. Ballinger (Eds.), Peer interaction and second language learning. Pedagogical potential and research agenda (pp. 209–240). John Benjamins.
Mercer, S. (2019). Language learner engagement: Setting the scene. In Gao, X. (Ed.), Second handbook of English language teaching (pp. 1–19). Springer.
Noels, K.A., Lou, N.M., Vargas Lascano, D.I., et al. (2019). Self-determination and motivated engagement in language learning. In Lamb, M., Csizér, K., Henry, A., & S. Ryan (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of motivation for language learning (pp. 95–116). Palgrave.
Sulis, G., & Philp, J. (2021). Exploring connections between classroom environment and engagement in the foreign language classroom. In P. Hiver, A.H Al-Hoorie, & S. Mercer (Eds.), Student engagement in the language classroom. Multilingual Matters.