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Unpacking the relationships between emotions and achievement of EFL learners in China: Engagement as a mediator

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Emotions are attracting growing attention in second language acquisition (SLA), especially with the advent of positive psychology (PP). The fundamental role of emotions in affecting learners’ second language (L2) achievement has been well-documented ...
Haihua Wang, Yingli Wang, Shaojie Li
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Korean language learning demotivation among EFL instructors in South Korea [PDF]

, 2019
Studies investigating the motivation of L1 speakers of English to learn the national language of the host society they currently reside in remain rare, despite the exponential growth of such individuals residing in these nations this century.
Gearing, Nigel
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally, Carmel O. Sullivan, Karin Bacon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implications of Multi-sensory Approach for Child L2 Vocabulary Acquisitio

Glottodidactica, 2001
Teaching a foreign language to young learners requires of the teacher a special ability to involve them in a variety of activities explicitly accommodating their need for whole-person enjoyment and implicitly fostering their L2 knowledge.
Joanna Zawodniak
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Researching and Practicing Positive Psychology in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: The Past, Current Status and Future Directions

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
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 ...
Yongliang Wang, Ali Derakhshan, Lawrence Jun Zhang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign Language Enjoyment for Teaching and Learning: Experiences of Pakistani Teachers

Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies
The present study is aimed at investigating the level and sources of foreign language enjoyment of foreign language teachers. The focus is to probe into foreign language enjoyment of teachers’ foreign language learning as well as foreign language teaching practices.
null Hana Habib, null Hajira Khalid Sair, null Dr Muhammad Shahbaz, null Dr Muhammad Rashid Hafeez   +3 more
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Pandemic Im/mobilities, reproductive injustices, and assisted reproductive technology use among Taiwanese LGBTQ parents

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized.
Sara L. Friedman
wiley   +1 more source

Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
wiley   +1 more source

The motivational challenge facing beginner learners of Spanish at a distance [PDF]

, 2010
This paper presents some preliminary findings of an on-going longitudinal study of initial motivation and motivation maintenance in beginner distance adult learners of Spanish in the UK. Adapting a framework of executive motivational influences developed
Furnborough, Concha
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