Iranian university English learners’ discursive demotivation construction

Investigating how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their demotivation construction is arelatively new area of inquiry. This paper examined the discursive construction of four (two males andtwo females) Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ demotivation at Shiraz University,Iran. Employing Fairclough’s (2003) critical discourse analysis framework, the present study revealedthat demotivation is not uni-dimensional and static; rather, it is complex, multi-dimensional, anddynamic, which is discursively constructed in the constant interaction between the individual and thesocial context. Findings also indicated that the discursive construction of demotivation involvedsimultaneous interaction of multiple levels of learners’ interpersonal relationships, their future selfguides,and factors in local and broader social, cultural and political milieus.

کلیدواژه ها:

demotivation ، discursive construction ، future self-guides ، legitimation ، critical discourse analysis