Motivation questionnaires

A concise, practical summary of how to develop and process questionnaires:

Dörnyei, Z., & Csizér, K. (2012). How to design and analyze surveys in SLA research? In A. Mackey & S. Gass (Eds.), Research methods in second language acquisition: A practical guide (pp. 74-94). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

• 2012 Dornyei Csizer RMSLA (PDF, 788 Kb)

The motivation questionnaires used in the 2008-2009 comparative survey project in Japan, China and Iran

(see Taguchi, Magid, & Papi, 2009, in Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2009; + Dörnyei, 2010, Questionnaires in Second Language Research, Chapter 5 and Appendices A and B)

• Combined grouped item pool (Dörnyei, 2010, Appendix A) (PDF, 70 Kb)

• The final versions of the three questionnaires (Japanese, Chinese and Persian) with their English translations (Dörnyei, 2010, Appendix B) (PDF, 2.9 Mb)

'Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching' (MOLT) classroom observation scheme (Guilloteaux & Dörnyei, 2008)

• MOLT Part A (PDF, 355 Kb)

• MOLT Part B (PDF, 146 Kb)

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The motivation questionnaire used in the 1993-2004 Hungarian survey project
(see e.g. Dörnyei & Csizér, 2002; Dörnyei, Csizér, & Németh, 2006)

• English translation of the Hungarian questionnaire (PDF, 46 Kb)

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Motivational Strategies Questionnaire' (Cheng & Dörnyei, 2007)

• English translation (PDF, 219 Kb)

• Original Chinese version (PDF, 195 Kb)

'Self-Regulating Capacity in Vocabulary Learning' (SRCvoc) scale (Tseng, Dörnyei, & Schmitt, 2006)

• English, Chinese and grouped versions (PDF, 217 Kb)

'English Language Learning Survey' (Clément, Dörnyei, & Noels, 1994)

• Clement-Dornyei-Noels Questionnaire - Hungarian (PDF, 743 Kb)

• English translation of the Hungarian questionnaire (PDF, 216 Kb)

• Items grouped according to scales (PDF, 115 Kb)

Language Orientation Questionnaire (Dörnyei & Chan, 2013)
(Not all the items were used in the final study and the visual style scale lacked sufficient reliability.)

• English Translation (PDF, 333 Kb)

• Original Chinese Version (PDF, 465 Kb)

Motivation questionnaire used in the 2013 Chinese survey (You & Dörnyei, 2016; You, Dörnyei, Z., & Csizér, K., 2016)

• English version (PDF, 485 Kb)

• Chinese version (PDF, 312 Kb)

• Bilingual version (PDF, 586 Kb)

Christine Muir's questionnaire to assess Directed Motivational Currents: "DMC Disposition Questionnaire"

• "DMC Disposition Questionnaire" + Instructions and citing guidelines (PDF, 758 Kb)

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