Research

Selected Publications

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Driver, M. (2026). The impact of positive institutions on participatory action research in the secondary EFL classroom: A case study. Modern Language Journal, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.70048 

Driver, M. Y. (2025). Differentiating interest and joy in foreign and heritage language vocabulary learning: Expanding the research in positive psychology. Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 48, 50-68. https://doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2025.48.04 

Driver, M. (2024). Realities of comfort and discomfort in heritage language spaces: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double-edged sword. Modern Language Journal, 108, 147–167. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12899

Driver, M. (2023). Measuring and understanding linguistic insecurity in heritage and foreign language contexts: Design and validation of a novel scale. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2023.2265901

Driver, M. (2022a). Emotion-laden texts and words: The influence of emotion on vocabulary learning for heritage and foreign language learners. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 44(4), 1071–1094. 

Driver, M. (2022b). Switching codes and shifting morals: How code-switching and emotion affect moral judgment. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(3), 905–921. 

Goetze, J., & Driver, M. (2022). Is learning really just believing? – A meta-analysis of self-efficacy and achievement in SLA. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 12(2), 233–259.

Driver, M. (2021). Book Review: Psychophysiological Methods in Language Research – Rethinking Embodiment in Studies of Linguistic Behaviors by Bahiyyih Hardacre. Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 3(2), 166–168. 

Leeman, J., & Driver, M. (2021). Spanish heritage speaker identity and study abroad. In R. Pozzi, C. Escalante, & T. Quan (Eds.), Heritage Speakers of Spanish in Study Abroad. New York: Routledge, 141–159. 

Leow, R., & Driver, M. (2021). Cognitive theoretical perspectives on corrective feedback. In H. Nassaji & E. Kartchava (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of corrective feedback in language learning and teaching. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 65–84.