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Motivation and Second Foreign Language Proficiency: The Mediating Role of Foreign Language Enjoyment [PDF]

Sustainability, 2020
Inadequate research attention has been paid to the learning of a third language. For this reason, this study explores senior English major students’ learning of additional foreign languages in seven universities in Shaanxi Province, China. The study examines the relationship between the participants’ motivation and language proficiency through a ...
Huiyu Zhang, Ying Dai
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Reviewing enjoyment in foreign language education from the perspective of positive psychology [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
With the emergence of positive psychology as a defined specialization, interest in positive emotions has been part of a current trend in the literature of foreign language education (FLEd).
Qunfeng Wang
doaj   +3 more sources

Enjoyment as a key to success? Links between e-tandem language learning and tertiary students’ foreign language enjoyment

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
This paper reports on crossing borders virtually via an e-Tandem scheme and presents the findings of a study, in which students of English from an Austrian university were paired with students of German from the UK and the USA. Drawing on data from 19 in-
Pia Resnik, Christine Schallmoser
doaj   +5 more sources

Modeling the Association between EFL Instructors’ Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment and Humor Styles [PDF]

Journal of Language and Education, 2023
Background: Positive psychology in the field of applied linguistics has recently shifted its focus from L2 learners to L2 teachers as teachers have been revealed to be a pivotal external affordance for the emergence of learners’ positive emotions such ...
Mehdi Solhi, Majid Elahi Shirvan
doaj   +2 more sources

Predicting Sense of Classroom Community from Foreign Language Enjoyment and Anxiety in an English as a Foreign Language Classroom [PDF]

International Journal of Emotional Education, 2022
Whereas the role of anxiety and enjoyment in predicting learning outcomes is well documented in the literature, the role of these two emotion dimensions in predicting perceived sense of classroom community is rarely discussed in the literature despite ...
Alberth
doaj   +2 more sources

Relationship Between Growth Mindset and English Language Performance Among Chinese EFL University Students: The Mediating Roles of Grit and Foreign Language Enjoyment [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
There is no denying that there is ample evidence of numerous factors that influence language learners' success. Recently, there is a critical call to embrace positive psychology that is more open and appreciative of the positive influences in learning ...
Xiaoyu Hu, Gurnam Kaur Sidhu, Xin Lu
doaj   +2 more sources

Enjoymeter for Exploring Micro-Scale Changes in Foreign Language Enjoyment. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
With the popularity of positive psychology research in second language acquisition since 2012, foreign language enjoyment (FLE) has attracted many researchers in this domain. Several innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used so far to explore FLE.
Wang R.
europepmc   +4 more sources

A Positive Psychology Perspective on Positive Emotion and Foreign Language Enjoyment Among Chinese as a Second Language Learners Attending Virtual Online Classes in the Emergency Remote Teaching Context Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study adopted a positive psychology perspective to investigate positive emotion and foreign language enjoyment among Chinese as a second language (CSL) learners in an emergency remote teaching (ERT) context amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Qing Wang, Yuhong Jiang
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Foreign Language Enjoyment and Anxiety as the Correlates of the Ideal L2 Self in the English as a Foreign Language Context. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Learners’ emotions in learning a foreign language are claimed to shape complicated dynamic associations contributing to their motivational and linguistic outcomes, as evidenced by recent research in this area. In order to advance this research area, this study sought to investigate the foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom ...
Fathi J, Mohammaddokht F.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Junior school students’ foreign language buoyancy, enjoyment, and English achievement: Exploring the connections from a positive psychology perspective [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
From a positive psychology standpoint, this research investigated the relationship between foreign language buoyancy, foreign language enjoyment, and English academic achievement of 240 junior school students.
Lang Jingyu
doaj   +2 more sources