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

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
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Love and enjoyment in context: four case studies of adolescent EFL learners [PDF]

, 2018
This study explores the foreign language learning emotions of four EFL adolescent students in Romania and the ways in which their emotions emerge in their sociocultural context. Multiple qualitative methods were employed over a school semester, including
Pavelescu, L.M., Petric, Bojana
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Mental health and media coverage of COVID-19: investigation of the effects of television management, and efficient interrelation of anxiety through the dual technique: suffering VS pain, for the improvement of stress generated by the pandemic

Vivat Academia, 2023
Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a foreign language is linked to a range of negative and positive emotions. The present study investigated whether language enjoyment and anxiety are potential predictors of WTC.
José Jesús Vargas, María Pilar Yébenes Cortés   +1 more
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Modeling the Association between EFL Instructors’ Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment and Humor Styles

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
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Dynamic properties of language anxiety [PDF]

, 2020
This article begins by examining previous empirical studies to demonstrate that language anxiety, or the negative emotional reaction learners experience when using a second language (MacIntyre & Gardner, 1999), is a dynamic individual difference ...
Gregersen, Tammy
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Foreign language enjoyment and foreign language classroom anxiety among Chinese learners of German

Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras, 2023
This study examines both the foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and the foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) of 201 Chinese university students of non-German majors who were learning the German language. A questionnaire based on the FLE scale and the FLCA scale was employed to examine the participants’ classroom emotions as well as other learner ...
Chen, Yu, Chen, Chuchu, Liu, Siqi
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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
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The two faces of Janus? Anxiety and Enjoyment in the Foreign Language Classroom [PDF]

, 2014
The present study investigates Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) in the classroom. Participants were 1746 current FL learners from around the world.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc, MacIntyre, P.
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The dynamic interactions in foreign language classroom anxiety and foreign language enjoyment of pupils aged 12 to 18. A pseudo-longitudinal investigation [PDF]

, 2017
The combined effect of positive and negative emotions in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has attracted the attention of researchers influenced by the Positive Psychology movement (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014; 2016a).
Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Dewaele, L.
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Survey data of foreign language learners' enjoyment and anxiety in the U.S.

Data in Brief, 2020
The data derive from a survey collected from 182 bilingual and multilingual speakers who are foreign language speakers from six language groups, including Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, and Russian.
Tsung-han Weng
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