It is safe to say that language anxiety has been the most widely studied emotion in second
language acquisition (SLA), perhaps because it is both an intense and a frequent …

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success–and therefore crucial for the
language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and …

As artificial intelligence (AI) has been integrated into foreign language (FL) education,
learners' well‐being is influenced by various factors, including technological, personal and …

Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the
analysis of various characteristics within individuals towards a greater consideration of …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

The first part of the paper offers the characteristics of the affective variables of willingness to
communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom as located within the framework of …

In this study we examine processes of motivational change for middle school language
learners (N= 174) within the classroom ecology of genre-based writing. Through longitudinal …

ABSTRACT Dewaele and MacIntyre.[2016.'Foreign language enjoyment and foreign
language classroom anxiety: The right and left feet of the language learner.'In Positive …

Learner beliefs, as a complex learner characteristic, greatly impact the L2 learning process
and its outcomes; however, little research has specifically explored the dynamic nature of …

Abstract English public speaking (EPS) is increasingly gaining prominence and popularity
around the world, and this is especially true for university students in China. While self …