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The Role of English as a Foreign Language Teachers’ Mindfulness and Compassion in Fostering Students’ Foreign Language Enjoyment [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
With the popularity of positive psychology in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning, learners’ positive emotions have attracted great academic attention. Foreign language enjoyment (FLE) is regarded as a constructive emotion and key component for learners’ academic engagement that is affected by educators’ emotions and psychological
Huang J.
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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
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Enjoymeter for Exploring Micro-Scale Changes in Foreign Language Enjoyment [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 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.
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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]

Frontiers in Psychology, 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 ...
Jalil Fathi, Farnoosh Mohammaddokht
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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
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Teacher emotional support and learning engagement: a sequential mediation model of basic psychological needs satisfaction and enjoyment [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
ObjectivesBased on Self-Determination Theory, this study explores the mechanism by which teacher emotional support (TES) influences learning engagement of English as a foreign language (EFL) students, focusing on the mediation roles of basic ...
Xiaolan Ye, Kun He
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Predictive effects of foreign language listening emotions on listening achievement [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionWhile anxiety has been extensively studied, other emotions have remained largely unexamined in foreign language listening research, and their effects on listening achievement remain uncertain.
Shuping Chen, Longhai Yu, Renjing Huang, Li Tian   +3 more
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Enjoyment in foreign language learning: A systematic review

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In recent years, research on enjoyment in foreign language (FL) learning has flourished. To help illuminate the existing scope of inquiry and guide future research, this paper presents a systematic review of 118 empirical studies on FL learning enjoyment
Zhipeng Zhang, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Ting Liu   +2 more
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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
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