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Flaviu A. Hodis; Georgeta M. Hodis – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2025
Objective: The first objective of this research was to investigate the interrelationships of regulatory focus (i.e. promotion and prevention) and the ability to direct attention when studying. The second was to examine whether unobserved groups of individuals having distinct combinations of regulatory focus and directing attention differed on…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Needs, Personal Autonomy
Tran, Thao Quoc; Nguyen, Dung M. T. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Intercultural language learning (ICLL) has become an important concept that drives English learners' attention to the understanding and application of cultural elements in their English learning process; however, the learning motivation for and engagement in the proliferation of culture in English language teaching vary from one context to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation
Anna Lia Proietti Ergün; Hande Ersöz Demirdag – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In the last ten years, positive emotion in foreign language learning has been increasingly investigated in many research areas, including Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE). FLE has been defined as a positive emotion felt when an individual's psychological needs are met. This study investigates the relationship between perceived levels of Subjective…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, French
Anas M. Alhudib – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the Saudi undergraduate educational environment, exploring relationships among teacher support, basic psychological needs satisfaction and frustration, academic motivation, and GPA. The study investigates whether basic psychological needs mediate the relationship between teacher support and academic motivation, utilizing…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Undergraduate Students, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries
Ali Derakhshan; Jalil Fathi; Miroslaw Pawlak; Mariusz Kruk – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study aimed to test a model of classroom social climate, growth language mindset, boredom, and student engagement among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. In addition, the mediating role of boredom in this structural model was examined. To this end, 287 English major students from various universities in Iran participated in the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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
Tam, Katy Y. Y.; Poon, Cyanea Y. S.; Hui, Victoria K. Y.; Wong, Christy Y. F.; Kwong, Vivian W. Y.; Yuen, Gigi W. C.; Chan, Christian S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Boredom is a common complaint among students. Boredom was previously found to be negatively associated with academic outcomes, such as academic motivation, strategies, and achievement. It is of interest to understand students' in-class boredom, especially factors that might exacerbate it. Aims: The current study examines the influence…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Interests, Correlation, Student Attitudes
Pariwat Imsa-ard – rEFLections, 2025
Recently, there has been a rapid growth in the number of studies related to emotions and positive psychology constructs in language teaching and learning. However, there is scant research in the context of low exposure to English. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the relationship between Thai EFL secondary school learners' L2 positive and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Usage
Pariwat Imsa-ard – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study diverges from conventional psychological perspectives that often concentrate on language learning deficiencies necessitating remedial interventions. Instead, it emphasizes the pivotal role of positive psychological constructs in facilitating optimal language development, particularly in contexts characterized by limited exposure to…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kam Hong Shum; Samuel Kai Wah Chu; Cheuk Yu Yeung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study examines the use of data analytics to evaluate students' behaviours during their participation in an online collaborative learning environment called SkyApp. To visualise the learning traits of engagement, emotion and motivation, students' inputs and activity data were captured and quantified for analysis. Experiments were first carried…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Online Courses, Cooperative Learning, Computer Software
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)
Zhu, Xinhua; Yao, Yuan; Pang, Wanru; Zhu, Siyu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Existing studies on L2 motivation have established a significant association between ideal self, learning engagement, and academic achievement, but few have examined the internal relationships between these variables in the L2 writing domain. In addition, students' linguistic competence, a fundamental element of writing achievement, remains…
Descriptors: Correlation, Linguistic Competence, Learning Motivation, Writing Achievement
Valdez, Jana Patricia M.; Chu, Samuel Kai Wah – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
The present investigation explored the psychometric validity of the five-item Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-5) using a construct validation approach. Concerning within-network construct validity, results of item response theory (IRT) analysis via graded response model (GRM) showed that this scale could not discriminate individuals who score high in…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Validity, Psychological Patterns, Construct Validity
Moskowitz, Sharona; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
There remains a dearth of research on the effects of student perception of teacher happiness and the ramifications of those perceptions on student feelings and attitudes. Using an online questionnaire, data were collected from 129 adult students of ESL/EFL across the world who were enrolled in formal English classes of intermediate to advanced…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Teachers, Psychological Patterns, Learning Motivation
Li, Chengchen – Modern Language Journal, 2021
There is a growing research interest in a variety of emotions in foreign and second language (L2) classrooms, especially since the introduction of positive psychology. However, research on the ubiquitous emotional experience of boredom is scant. Building on its prevalence and documented deleterious effects, I argue that research on the antecedents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction