Zoltán Dörnyei

Zoltán Dörnyei
Zoltán Dörnyei
Born	11 March 1960; Budapest, Hungary
Died	10 June 2022 (aged 62); Nottingham, England
Alma mater	Eötvös Loránd University; University of Nottingham; Durham University;
Known for	L2 Motivational Self System; Directed Motivational Currents;
Awards	1999: Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize;
	Scientific career
Fields	Second language acquisition; Dynamic approach to second language development; Motivation in second-language learning;
Institutions	Eötvös Loránd University; University of Nottingham;
Thesis	Psycholinguistic factors in foreign language learning (1989)
Doctoral students	Kata Csizér ; Judit Kormos
Website	Dörnyei on the website of the University of Nottingham

Zoltán Dörnyei (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈzoltaːn ˈdørɲɛi]) (11 March 1960 – 10 June 2022) was a Hungarian-born British linguist. He was a professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.^[2]^[3] He was known for his work on second language acquisition and the psychology of someone learning a second language.^[4]

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↑ Zoltan Dornyei dead, Hungarian-born British linguist – cause of death. En.memesrandom.com
↑ Kormos, J. (2013). Dörnyei, Zoltán. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (on-line). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
↑ Dörnyei, Zoltán (December 2000). "Motivation in action: Towards a process-oriented conceptualisation of student motivation". British Journal of Educational Psychology. 70 (4): 519–538. doi:10.1348/000709900158281. PMID 11191185.
↑ Dörnyei, Z. (2016). From English language teaching to psycholinguistics: A story of three decades. In R. Ellis (Ed.), Becoming and being an applied linguist: The life histories of some applied linguists (pp. 119-135). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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