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Frontiers in Psychology
Researching and Practicing Positive Psychology in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: The Past, Current Status and Future Directions
2021 •
Lawrence Jun Zhang
In addressing the recent special issue in Frontiers in Psychology, namely “Positive Psychology in Foreign and Second Language Education: Approaches and Applications,” calling language education researchers around the globe to study positive emotions, positive personality traits, and positive institutional tendencies and their implications for language education systems, stakeholders, and policy practices, the present conceptual review paper aims to acquaint language education researchers, practitioners, instructors, and learners with the main tenets of positive psychology and their application in second/foreign language (L2) education research. Accordingly, by drawing on the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, we explain how individuals' positivity can result in their flourishment and development in any aspect of life, including L2 learning and teaching. Then, we introduce and conceptualize seven instances of positive psychology variables, namely academic engagement, ...
Frontiers in Psychology
The Flowering of Positive Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching and Acquisition Research
2019 •
Amado M. Padilla
International Journal of Multilingualism
Visual cues and perception of emotional intensity among L1 and LX users of English
2019 •
Phoebe Moxsom-Turnbull
The Modern Language Journal
Setting an Agenda for Positive Psychology in SLA: Theory, Practice, and Research
2019 •
Peter MacIntyre
S. Li, P. Hiver & M. Papi (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences. London: Routledge.
Enjoyment
2022 •
Jean-Marc Dewaele
Enjoyment has been described as the emotion that fuels the second language learning process and that boosts performance in the second language. This chapter shows how enjoyment emerged in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research in the second decade of the 21 st century as a result of the dissemination of concepts from Positive Psychology and Educational Psychology in SLA. After a historical overview, the chapter focusses on the studies that have investigated the relationship between enjoyment, anxiety and motivation before delving into learnerinternal and learner-external sources of variation in enjoyment. Particular attention is then given to the instruments used for measuring enjoyment before considering the pedagogical implications of this area of research. The chapter concludes with a number of suggestions for further research.
Frontiers in Psychology
Trait Emotional Intelligence and Classroom Emotions: A Positive Psychology Investigation and Intervention Among Chinese EFL Learners
2019 •
Chengchen Li
Second Language Learning and Teaching
The Positive Broadening Power of a Focus on Well-Being in the Language Classroom
2016 •
Tammy Gregersen
Frontiers in Psychology
The role of learner character strengths and classroom emotions in L2 resilience
Dr. Fakieh Alrabai
This study aimed to examine a theory-driven model to explain how language learner's trait emotional intelligence (TEI) and effort as two learner character strengths predict learner enjoyment as a positive emotion and anxiety and boredom as two negative classroom emotions, and how these variables, collectively, predict resilience in language learning. The underlying relationship between these variables was tested via a comprehensive model within a positive psychology perspective using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach. The paths in the final structural model indicated that L2 learner TEI did not significantly explain their resilience directly but rather completely indirectly through the mediation of learner negative and positive emotions. Learner effort, directly and indirectly, predicted L2 resilience and its predictive power in it was much larger than that of TEI. In addition, enjoyment and boredom directly influenced L2 resilience and al...
Language Teaching Research
Teacher enthusiasm and students’ social-behavioral learning engagement: The mediating role of student enjoyment and boredom in Chinese EFL classes
2021 •
Chengchen Li
Teacher enthusiasm is attracting growing attention in educational and learner psychology research. There is evidence that teacher enthusiasm is contagious in class and positively affects student emotions. Their fundamental role in shaping student engagement has also been well documented. However, the links – between teacher enthusiasm and student emotions, and between student emotions and engagement – remain underexplored in instructed second language acquisition. The present study adopted a mixed-method approach to examine the complex relationships between perceived teacher enthusiasm, emotions (enjoyment and boredom), and social-behavioral learning engagement among 2,002 learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) from 11 universities in China. Quantitative analyses showed small to large correlations between perceived teacher enthusiasm, enjoyment, boredom, and social-behavioral learning engagement. In addition, student enjoyment and boredom were found to co-mediate the relati...
Frontiers in Psychology
The predictive effect of subjective well-being and stress on foreign language enjoyment: The mediating effect of positive language education
2023 •
anna lia proietti ergun
