The predictive effects of classroom environment and trait emotional intelligence on Foreign Language Enjoyment and Anxiety
By Chengchen Li, Jian Huang, Banban Li. 2020
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Abstract The field of SLA has witnessed an affective turn. It is mainly catalyzed by Positive Psychology researchers’ holistic view on diverse emotions, especially positive ones, that language learners experienced. The combination of Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) and Anxiety (FLA) has captured the most attention. A list of learner-internal factors (e.g., trait emotional intelligence) and learner-external factors (e.g., classroom environment) have been revealed as significant predictors of the two emotions. However, few studies have sought to examine the joint effects of trait emotional intelligence and classroom environment on the two emotions. The study was thus conducted to provide a better understanding of the combined role of person-environment factors in shaping L2 emotions. Questionnaires were administered among two samples of EFL learners, namely 1718 secondary school students and 1295 university students in China. We conducted correlation and regression analyses and revealed similar patterns: 1) Trait emotional intelligence and classroom environment significantly predicted FLE and FLA separately as well as jointly; 2) FLE was more predicted by classroom environment and less by trait emotional intelligence, while FLA was more predicted by trait emotional intelligence and less by classroom environment. Our findings contribute to the emerging wave of examining the interaction between learner-internal and learner-external factors of emotions, providing important implications for L2 practitioners and researchers.
Subfields: Information Systems, Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology
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In Information Systems
In Language and Linguistics
- Chengchen Li
- Lawrence Jun Zhang
- Jean–Marc Dewaele
- Guiying Jiang
- Ju Seong Lee
- P. Macintyre
- Livia Dewaele
- Kazuya Saito
In Social Psychology
Citations in the corpus
- Teacher enthusiasm and students’ social-behavioral learning engagement: The mediating role of student enjoyment and boredom in Chinese EFL classes (2021, background): “Li, Huang and Li (2021) also revealed that teacher played a key role in creating a positive classroom environment among two samples of 1,718 secondary EFL students and 2,268 EFL students in China.”
- Conceptualisation and measurement of foreign language learning burnout among Chinese EFL students (2021, background): “…enjoyment, anxiety and boredom, have been capturing most attention from researchers, which could be attributed to the operationalisation of these concepts in the speci fi c context of L2 learning and the availability of reliable and valid measurement tools (Li, Huang, and Li 2021; Teimouri 2018).”