A three-body problem: The effects of foreign language anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom on academic achievement

JM Dewaele, E Botes, R Meftah - Annual Review of Applied …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This study is part of a growing wave of interest in foreign language (FL) learners' emotions,
their sources, and their effects. Previous studies have confirmed that there is a clear …

Classroom interventions and foreign language anxiety: A systematic review with narrative approach

M Toyama, Y Yamazaki - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Experimental studies have developed, conducted, and evaluated classroom interventions
for foreign language anxiety (FLA) reduction. However, various characteristics of those …

Anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom in language learning amongst junior secondary students in rural China: How do they contribute to L2 achievement?

C Li, L Wei - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023 - cambridge.org
Building on the control-value theory, the present study examined the independent and joint
predictive effects of three emotions—enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom—on L2 achievement …

The relationships between young FL learners' classroom emotions (anxiety, boredom, & enjoyment), engagement, and FL proficiency

A Tsang, JM Dewaele - Applied linguistics review, 2024 - degruyter.com
The last decade has seen a proliferation of studies about emotions in FL teaching and
learning. The present study examined three of the most researched and well-known FL …

The development and validation of the short form of the foreign language enjoyment scale

E Botes, JM Dewaele, S Greiff - The Modern Language Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We used a data set with n= 1,603 learners of foreign languages (FL) to develop and validate
the short form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (S‐FLES). The data was split into 2 …

Taking stock: A meta-analysis of the effects of foreign language enjoyment

E Botes, JM Dewaele, S Greiff - Studies in Second Language Learning …, 2022 - ceeol.com
Studies examining the positive emotion of foreign language enjoyment (FLE) have recently
increased exponentially, as researchers are applying the tenets of positive psychology in …

How foreign language enjoyment acts as a buoy for sagging motivation: A longitudinal investigation

JM Dewaele, K Saito, F Halimi - Applied Linguistics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The current study contributes to the recent debate on the question whether learner emotions
can be intrinsically motivating or whether they are no more than diffuse action tendencies …

Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach

JM Dewaele, E Botes, S Greiff - Studies in Second Language …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The present study is among the first to investigate how three foreign language (FL)
emotions, namely FL enjoyment (FLE), anxiety (FLCA), and boredom (FLB), are related to …

How classroom environment and general grit predict foreign language classroom anxiety of Chinese EFL students

C Li, JM Dewaele - Journal for the Psychology of Language …, 2021 - eprints.bbk.ac.uk
Interest in the role of learners' personality, emotions and the learning environment in foreign
language (FL) learning has grown exponentially in the past decade. The introduction of …

Learner emotions, autonomy and trait emotional intelligence in 'in-person'versus emergency remote English foreign language teaching in Europe

P Resnik, JM Dewaele - Applied Linguistics Review, 2023 - degruyter.com
Due to the spread of Covid-19, universities had to move their courses online abruptly. This
paper explores its impact on 510 European tertiary-level English as a Foreign Language …