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Guises of Despair

open access: yes
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Béatrice Han‐Pile
wiley   +1 more source

The dimensions of foreign language classroom enjoyment and their effect on foreign language achievement

open access: yesInternational Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This paper reports a study that investigated the dimensions underneath the construct of foreign language classroom enjoyment and explored the pattern in which these enjoyment dimensions affect foreign language achievement. To this end, 320 first language Chinese senior high school students, who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL), were ...
Yinxing Jin, Lawrence Jun Zhang
openaire   +2 more sources

A Comparative Study of Two Scales for Foreign Language Classroom Enjoyment

open access: yesPerceptual and Motor Skills, 2019
This article reports on a study that tested Jin and Zhang's Chinese version of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale for classroom learning through confirmatory factor analysis and compared the resulting scale with Li, Jiang, and Dewaele's 11-item scale.
Yinxing Jin, Lawrence Jun Zhang
openaire   +3 more sources

The Development and Validation of the Short Form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale

open access: yesModern Language Journal, 2021
The Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (FLES) was originally introduced by Dewaele and MacIntyre (2014). We used a data set with n = 1,603 learners of foreign languages (FL) to develop and validate the Short Form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (S ...
Elouise Botes   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

A longitudinal study of foreign language anxiety and enjoyment

Language Teaching Research, 2021
The present longitudinal study investigated the changes of FLE (foreign language enjoyment) and FLA (foreign language anxiety) over time in the foreign language classroom and their relationship with foreign language learning motivation and learners’ personality traits.
Chunmei Pan, Xian Zhang
openaire   +1 more source

Affordances of the Microsystem of the Classroom for Foreign Language Enjoyment

Human Arenas, 2020
Foreign language enjoyment (FLE) has been a recently investigated variable in the field of applied linguistics. The recent studies on FLE have provided us with insights into potential affordances for this construct. However, given the ecological nature of the environment of classrooms and the substantial contribution of teachers to the emergence of FLE,
Majid Elahi Shirvan, Tahereh Taherian
openaire   +1 more source

Interactions of trait emotional intelligence, foreign language anxiety, and foreign language enjoyment in the foreign language speaking classroom

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The present study investigated the interactions of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI), foreign language anxiety (FLA), and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) in the foreign language speaking cla...
Zhuo Chen, Ping Zhang, Yi Lin, Yanxia Li
openaire   +1 more source

Dynamics and mechanisms of foreign language enjoyment contagion

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
With the recent shift from negative psychology to positive psychology in the field of second language acquisition deeper understanding regarding the transfer and construction of positive emotions w...
Nahid Talebzadeh   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Foreign Language Enjoyment and Anxiety in the Communicative Classroom

JALT Postconference Publication, 2022
This study takes a mixed-methods approach to examine relationships between Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) among university-level Japanese English learners (n = 598) in a compulsory oral communication course.
openaire   +1 more source

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