Language Teaching Research Quarterly

Peter MacIntyre’s 35-years of research in SLA, psychology of language learning, and communication was systematically reviewed in six sections driven by subjective guidelines developed for the purposes of the present survey. To operationalize the objectives of the sections, an impressionistic methodology was created for analysis, according to which exclusion and inclusion rules were coined. Then, a fairly representative sample of six main thematic areas were extracted; the main themes were SLA, willingness to communicate, psychology of language learning, motivation theory, the idiodynamic method, and other relevant topics, all of which were portrayed in the light of the dominance and frequency of investigation. Next, we tabulated from our online search, a total number of his overall achievements which stood approximately at 250 research works. After that, we systematically reviewed his research works including articles, book chapters and books. Finally, Peter MacIntyre provided a discussion and his personal reflections on the systematic review.