The 'EMPATHICS'vision in this chapter heralds the arrival of positive psychology to the
language learning arena (see also MacIntyre & Mercer, 2014) and moves us toward a …

Positive psychology examines and promotes human well-being. This chapter describes the
author's quest to create a useful, understandable model of language learner well-being …

Positive psychology has the potential to become a prominent research area in SLA. The field
is focused on positive emotion, positive character traits, and institutions that enable …

Just over a decade after the positive psychology movement was launched, Seligman (2011)
released Flourish, a book that presented a new model for positive psychology, PERMA. The …

As it has become a tradition that positive psychology volumes begin with a personal story
which inspired the authors or editors, the editor of this volume will follow suit: A friend was …

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

Emotional intelligence has not been widely studied in second language acquisitionand
studies published to date have been questionnaire-based. In this study we take a qualitative …

In this paper, we discuss the notion of Positive Language Education (PLE), which stems from
a combination of Positive Education and Language Education. We suggest that there are …

In the field of language learning psychology (LLP), research has tended to focus on the
learner with comparatively little attention paid to understanding teacher psychology and …

In the seminal article on positive psychology, Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2000) identify
three pillars for the field: positive character traits, positive emotions and positive institutions …