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Modelling the Predictive Effect of Enjoyment on Willingness to Communicate in a Foreign Language: The Chain Mediating Role of Growth Mindset and Grit
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Xia Yu; Jinhui Ma – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Willingness to communicate in a foreign and second language (L2 WTC) has gradually become a recurrent theme in the SLA. With the advent of an emotional or affective turn brought by the positive psychology movement in applied linguistics, the significant role of positive emotions such as Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) in L2 WTC has been…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Self Concept
Associations between EFL Students' L2 Grit, Boredom Coping Strategies, and Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
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Mehdi Solhi; Ali Derakhshan; Büsra Ünsal – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
This study intended to explore the relations between 259 Turkish EFL students' L2 grit (i.e. the persistence of effort and consistency of interest) and boredom coping strategies (i.e. cognitive approach, behavioural approach, cognitive avoidance, and behavioural avoidance) as well as the moderating role of their emotion regulation strategies,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Resilience (Psychology)
Classroom Social Climate, Growth Language Mindset, and Student Engagement: The Mediating Role of Boredom in Learning English as a Foreign Language
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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)
Testing a Model of Growth Mindset, Ideal L2 Self, Boredom, and WTC in an EFL Context
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Lawrence Jun Zhang; Abdulbaset Saeedian; Jalil Fathi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given much importance associated with willingness to communicate (WTC) in foreign language learning, many researchers have carried out studies to explore antecedents of second language (L2) WTC. To contribute to this research domain, this study sought to test a model of ideal L2 self, growth language mindset, boredom and WTC among English major…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Learner Engagement
Modeling the Relationship between Classroom Emotions, Motivation, and Learner Willingness to Communicate in EFL: Applying a Holistic Approach of Positive Psychology in SLA Research
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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)
The Role of Positive and Negative Psychological Factors in Predicting Effort and Anxiety toward Languages Other than English
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McEown, Kristopher; Sugita-McEown, Maya – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The role of positive and negative psychological factors in predicting effort and foreign language anxiety for languages other than English (LOTE) is not well understood. Therefore, two hundred twenty-one students attending a private university in Tokyo, Japan participated in a research study. Participants were studying one of four LOTEs,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns, Anxiety, Private Colleges