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Miroslaw Pawlak; Ali Derakhshan; Mostafa Mehdizadeh; Mariusz Kruk – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although boredom has been the subject of increasing scrutiny in second language (L2) learning recently, very little is known about how this emotion can affect teachers and students involved in COVID-19 prompted online English education. To address this gap, through maximum variation sampling, this qualitative study surveyed the opinions of 34…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Negative Attitudes, Electronic Learning, English (Second Language)
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Sachiko Nakamura; Pornapit Darasawang; Hayo Reinders – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article recounts my experience in enhancing my students' boredom regulation by designing, implementing, and evaluating a strategy instruction project. The project was undertaken with 25 Thai university students enrolled in my English oral communication course for 15 weeks. The project began with exploring how and why my students experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Porto, Melina; Golubeva, Irina; Byram, Michael – Language Teaching Research, 2023
In this article we argue, in the context of the current dominance of the performative and instrumental drives characterizing the accountable university, that language and intercultural communication education in universities should also be humanistic, addressing 'discomforting themes' to sensitize students to issues of human suffering and engage…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Psychological Patterns, COVID-19, Pandemics