with Bradford Lee, Fukui University of Technology (online)

Learner engagement is a major predictor of success in L2 acquisition. It is therefore important to be able to measure engagement over time. However, current research on L2 engagement has a number of shortcomings: 1) much is carried out in controlled research settings; 2) scaling is often impossible; 3) current methods are often highly intrusive; 4) many studies are short-term and unable to capture variation over time; and 5) many studies only investigate small student populations in a single environment. To overcome these issues, we designed a mobile application for teachers to record L2 engagement levels through experience sampling, a method used to collect data on learner experiences in-the-moment. I will describe the application and how we validated it, and demonstrate its usefulness as a research and pedagogical instrument based on a pilot study.

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