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Jakub Bielak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The relationship between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) experienced during a creative collaborative oral English-as-a-foreign-language task, and the relationships between FLE/FLA and task speech fluency were investigated. The task was performed by mid-intermediate/high-intermediate English learners (N = 43) in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency
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Chengchen Li; Jean-Marc Dewaele; Miroslaw Pawlak; Mariusz Kruk – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The present study examines the direct and indirect relationships between classroom environment (CE), L2 (second/foreign language) learner emotions (i.e. enjoyment, anxiety and boredom), and their willingness to communicate (WTC) in classes for English as a foreign language (EFL). Participants were 2,268 university students in China. Pearson…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Shuwen Liu; Rui Yuan; Chuang Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Teaching has always been an emotionally demanding profession, which involves tremendous emotional labour on the part of language teachers. This is particularly true for instructors of English as a foreign language (EFL) suddenly obliged to teach online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the approach of autoethnographic self-study, this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Ethnography
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Chengchen Li – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in diverse emotions that foreign/second language (L2) learners experience. However, research on L2 boredom is just starting. The current study focuses on foreign language learning boredom (FLLB) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and examines how they are associated with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Psychological Patterns
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Zhang, Jiayi; Beckmann, Nadin; Beckmann, Jens F. – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Willingness to communicate (WTC) used to be studied as a relatively stable, trait-like predisposition; however, recently attention has shifted to the more dynamic, state-like components of WTC. This research investigates variability and stability in state WTC, particularly focusing on within-person variability, which may lead to stable…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Li, Chengchen – Language Teaching Research, 2021
Teacher enthusiasm is attracting growing attention in educational and learner psychology research. There is evidence that teacher enthusiasm is contagious in class and positively affects student emotions. Their fundamental role in shaping student engagement has also been well documented. However, the links -- between teacher enthusiasm and student…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Educational Psychology, Research, Teacher Influence