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Chengchen Li; Li Wei; Xiaojun Lu – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The study investigated the effect of task complexity (TC) on second language (L2) learners' affective responses and writing performance and how these were modulated by cognitive and affective individual difference (ID) factors. A total of 412 Chinese 8th-grade English-as-a-foreign-language learners completed a working memory (WM) test, a scale…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Foreign Countries
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Chengchen Li – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
This study investigates task-specific emotions, examining how they arise and impact performance in a second language writing task through the lens of control-value theory and a positive psychology (PP) perspective. Participants were 206 secondary English-as-a-foreign-language learners from rural China. They completed an English argumentative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction