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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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Nicola Fraschini; Yu Tao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Existing studies on language learner emotions mainly focus on Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE). They are primarily conducted in offline learning settings. This paper reports the empirical findings of an exploratory investigation conducted in a fully synchronous online learning environment for "ab…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Online Courses
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Fakieh Alrabai – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study utilises a holistic approach of positive psychology (PP) in the second language acquisition (SLA) domain to test a model of willingness to communicate in English language (L2WTC) among 328 Saudi learners. The model examines how potential connections among learners' negative emotions (anxiety and boredom), positive emotions (enjoyment…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Attitudes, Student Participation, English (Second Language)
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Brouwer, Susanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Previous research has shown that people make systematically different decisions when faced with a moral dilemma in a native than in a foreign language [e.g. Costa, A., A. Foucart, S. Hayakawa, M. Aparici, J. Apesteguia, J. Heafner, and B. Keysar. 2014. "Your Morals Depend on Language." PLoS One 9 (4): e94842]. The aim of the current…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Decision Making, Native Language, Second Languages