The dynamism of strategic learning

This project was a holistic investigation of strategic foreign language (L2) learning processes. It required the integration of numerous interconnected, flexibly-interacting influences, which are at constant interplay with each other and whose development is difficult to predict. Validated as effective in other fields of applied linguistics, this project used state-of-the-art methodological guidance for complexity research. Empirical data from a previous study was re-analysed through a complexity lens. The project examined the suitability of complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) in strategy research, explored its practical value, and demonstrated that a complexity perspective can generate new, profound information about strategic learning.