Ema Ushioda

Ema Ushioda is a Professor and Head of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, where she has been based since 2002. Ema is known for her work on motivation and autonomy in language learning, particularly for promoting qualitatve approaches to researching motivation, and she has published widely in these areas. Her books include International Perspectives on Motivation: Language Learning and Professional Challenges(2013), Teaching and Researching Motivation (co-authored by Dörnyei, 2011), Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self (co-edited by Dörnyei, 2009), and the forthcoming title Language Learning Motivation: An Ethical Agenda for Research (2020).