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.
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Presentations
Mercer, S. (2020). The foundations of engagement: a positive classroom culture. Cambridge University Press ELT.
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Books
Christenson, S., Reschly, A. L., & Wylie, C. (2012). Handbook of research on student engagement. Springer.
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Hiver, P., Al-Hoorie, A. H., & Mercer, S. (Eds.). Student engagement in the language classroom. Multilingual Matters.
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Mercer, S., & Dörnyei, Z. (2020). Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms. Cambridge University Press.
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Journal articles
Aubrey, S., King, J., & Almukhalid, H. (2020). Language learner engagement during speaking tasks: A longitudinal study. RELC Journal, 0033688220945418.
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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.
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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.
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Egbert, J.L. (2020). The new normal? A pandemic of task engagement in language learning. Foreign Language Annals, 53, 314–319.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lambert, C., Philp, J., & Nakamura, S. (2017). Learner-generated content and engagement in second language task performance. Language Teaching Research, 21, 665–680.
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Mystkowska-Wiertelak, A. (2020). Teachers’ accounts of learners’ engagement and disaffection in the language classroom. The Language Learning Journal, 1-23.
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Oga-Baldwin, W.L.Q. (2019). Acting, thinking, feeling, making: The engagement process in language education. System, 86, 102–120.
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Philp, J., & Duchesne, S. (2016). Exploring engagement in tasks in the language classroom. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 36, 50–72.
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Sulis, G. (2022). Engagement in the foreign language classroom: Micro and macro perspectives. System, 110, 102902.
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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.
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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.
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Mercer, S. (2019). Language learner engagement: Setting the scene. In Gao, X. (Ed.), Second handbook of English language teaching (pp. 1–19). Springer.
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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.
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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.