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Stephen Ryan

    • Japan Campus

      • Professor, Waseda University

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        • Graduate College of Education

Stephen Ryan has been involved in language education for over 30 years, spending most of that time in Japan. He is currently a professor in the Graduate School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo, His research and publications cover various aspects of psychology in language learning, including the award-winning Exploring Psychology in Language Learning and Teaching (OUP), co-authored with Marion Williams and Sarah Mercer, and The Psychology of the Language Learner Revisited, co-authored with the late Zoltan Dörnyei. He has also served as president of IAPLL (The International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning) and as series editor for the Multilingual Matters Psychology in Language Learning and Teaching series.

Recent Publications:

  • Reinders, H., Phung, L., Ryan, S., Thomas, N. (2023). The key to self-regulated learning: A systematic approach to maximising its potential. Oxford University Press.  Available from: https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/expert/srl New Tab
  • Ryan, S. & Liu, H. (2022). Introducing Positive Psychology in Applied Linguistics: Asian Perspectives. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics. 45, 1, p. 3-6
  • Hayasaki, A. & Ryan, S., (2022). A Different Kind of Tension: Foreign Language Anxiety from a Positive Psychology Perspective. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics. 45, 1, p. 17-31.
  • Ryan, S. (2020). Individual differences and motivation. In M. Lamb, K. Csizer, A. Henry, & S. Ryan (eds.). Palgrave handbook of motivation for language learning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lamb, M., Csizer, K., Henry, A., & Ryan. S. (eds.) (2020). Palgrave handbook of motivation for language learning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ryan, S. (2019). A Person-Centered Approach: What It Means and Why It Matters: Proceedings of the 27th Korea TESOL International Conference, 39-47.
  • Ryan, S. (2019). Language learner motivation: What motivates motivation researchers? In J. W. Schwieter & A. Benali (eds.) The Cambridge handbook of language learning., pp. 409-429) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Ryan, S. & Irie, K. (2019). Learning Across Generations: A Small-Scale Initiative. In Innovation in English Education in Japan. (pp. 97-116). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Reinders, H., Ryan, S., & Nakamura, S. (eds.) (2019). Innovation in English Education in Japan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ryan S., Nakamura S., Reinders H. (2019). Innovation in Japan: Looking to the Future. In: Reinders H., Ryan S., Nakamura S. (eds) Innovation in English Education in Japan, pp. 283-289). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Reinders H., Nakamura S., Ryan S. (2019). The Scope of Innovation in Japanese Language Education. In: Reinders H., Ryan S., Nakamura S. (eds) Innovation in English Education in Japan, pp. 1-8). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Irie, K., Ryan, S., Mercer, S. (2018). Using Q methodology to investigate pre-service EFL teachers’ mindsets about teaching competences. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 8(3), 575-598.
  • Ryan, S. (2018). Motivation. In Richards, J. & Burns, A. (eds.). Cambridge Guide to Learning English as a Second Language. (pp. 55-62). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Education: PhD, University of Nottingham