In addressing the recent special issue in Frontiers in Psychology, namely “Positive
Psychology in Foreign and Second Language Education: Approaches and Applications,” …

Following the recent special issue in Frontiers in Psychology, entitled “The Role of Teacher
Interpersonal Variables in Students' Academic Engagement, Success, and Motivation,” …

Teacher enthusiasm is attracting growing attention in educational and learner psychology
research. There is evidence that teacher enthusiasm is contagious in class and positively …

Building on the control-value theory, the present study examined the independent and joint
predictive effects of three emotions—enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom—on L2 achievement …

With the rise of positive psychology (PP) and its emphasis on the affordances of positive
emotions to second/foreign language teaching and learning, numerous studies have been …

The present contribution offers an overview of a new area of research in the field of foreign
language acquisition, which was triggered by the introduction of Positive Psychology (PP) …

This paper critically examines the body of literature on emotions in second language
acquisition (SLA). More specifically, the following topics are discussed:(a) the three phases …

Academic engagement and teacher support, as two important factors in education, have
been largely neglected in the research literature of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) …

This article reports on a two-step investigation of foreign language learning boredom
amongst Chinese university non-English-major EFL students and English teachers. In Study …

We used a data set with n= 1,603 learners of foreign languages (FL) to develop and validate
the short form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (S‐FLES). The data was split into 2 …