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Positive Psychology in L2 Speaking: The Predictive Roles of Foreign Language Speaking Enjoyment, the Ideal L2 Speaking Self, and L2 Speaking Grit
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Jalil Fathi; Seyyed-Foad Behzadpoor – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
This study investigates the impact of positive psychology factors on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' second language (L2) speaking proficiency. Specifically, it examines the predictive roles of foreign language speaking enjoyment, the ideal L2 speaking self, and L2 speaking grit on L2 speaking proficiency. Data were collected from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns, Persistence
When Time Matters: Mechanisms of Change in a Mediational Model of Foreign Language Playfulness and L2 Learners' Emotions Using Latent Change Score Mediation Models
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Kruk, Mariusz; Pawlak, Miroslaw; Taherian, Tahereh; Yüce, Erkan; Shirvan, Majid Elahi; Barabadi, Elyas – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
In a dynamic system, time-dependent links "between" affective factors can provide more information than the level of response "within" a single isolated system. In the present study, influenced by the positive psychology movement and the complex dynamic systems theory in the domain of second language acquisition, first, we…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns, English (Second Language), Emotional Response
Let's Get Positive: How Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment Can Create a Positive Feedback Loop
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Yang, Shanshan; Azari Noughabi, Mostafa; Botes, Elouise; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Research on learners' foreign language emotions has revealed the existence of a positive feedback loop where increased enjoyment leads to better performance which, in turn, strengthens learners' enjoyment and boosts overall happiness. The current study follows this avenue focusing on teachers' foreign language teaching enjoyment (FLTE) and its…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)