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Download full textMacIntyre, Peter D.; Mercer, Sarah – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Positive psychology is a rapidly expanding subfield in psychology that has important implications for the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This paper introduces positive psychology to the study of language by describing its key tenets. The potential contributions of positive psychology are contextualized with reference to prior work,…
Descriptors: Psychology, Well Being, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
