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Chengchen Li; Miroslaw Pawlak; Mariusz Kruk – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
The study intended to describe profiles of three achievement emotions (enjoyment, boredom, anxiety), their associations with each other and with control-value appraisals within the framework of the control-value theory. A total of 2002 Chinese university EFL students from 11 universities in China participated in the questionnaire survey.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Theories, Achievement, Emotional Response
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Mehdi Solhi; Ali Derakhshan; Büsra Ünsal – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
This study intended to explore the relations between 259 Turkish EFL students' L2 grit (i.e. the persistence of effort and consistency of interest) and boredom coping strategies (i.e. cognitive approach, behavioural approach, cognitive avoidance, and behavioural avoidance) as well as the moderating role of their emotion regulation strategies,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Resilience (Psychology)
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Susanna Siu-sze Yeung; Art Tsang; William Wing Chung Lam; Tammy Sheung Ting Law – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Against the backdrop of rapidly growing attention to FL learners' emotions, the present study investigated learners' classroom emotions (anxiety, boredom, and enjoyment), literacy outcomes (reading and writing proficiency), and a largely neglected factor in FL emotions research to date -- maternal education as a proxy for socio-economic status.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
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Xuehua Ding; Yi Liu; Jian-E Peng – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Amidst the recent positive psychology trend, teacher resilience has captured increasing scholarly attention, while burnout remains a significant, negative construct in teachers' emotional spectrum. Research on burnout and resilience among teachers teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) is especially scant. In this study, we explored the…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Q Methodology, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Youngjoo Seo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Despite the unique status of English as a super-power among foreign languages in Korea, and researchers' increasing interest in Korean parents' zeal for achieving their children's early bilingualism and willingness to invest heavily in private English education outside of school, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of parental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Child Relationship, Bilingualism
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Ringphami Shimray; Thinley Wangdi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
The present study explored the antecedents and potential solutions to boredom in online English classrooms from the perspectives of 105 Thai EFL university students. Guided by a qualitative approach, an open-ended survey and semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. The thematic analysis of the data revealed nine antecedents that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learner Engagement