Elephants in the Room: An “Affective Turn,” Or Just Feeling Our Way?

By M. Prior. The Modern Language Journal, 2019

202 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Lanxi Wang
2. Ju Seong Lee
3. Qin Xie
4. Ying Lu
5. P. Macintyre
6. E. Miller
7. Christina Gkonou
8. Jean–Marc Dewaele

In Language and Linguistics

1. Ju Seong Lee
2. Lanxi Wang
3. Kilryoung Lee
4. Christina Gkonou
5. Qin Xie
6. E. Miller
7. Ying Lu
8. P. Macintyre

Citations in the corpus

• An Exploration of Language Teacher Reflection, Emotion Labor, and Emotional Capital (2020, background): “Yet more nuancing is necessary, and there is still much that we do not know about how emotions work in practice (Prior, 2019).”
• The role of grit and classroom enjoyment in EFL learners’ willingness to communicate (2020, unknown): “However, researchers have recently begun to point to the ‘ emotional ’ (White 2018) and ‘ a ff ective ’ turn (Pavlenko 2013; Prior 2019), which underscore the signi fi cance of emotions in L2 learning and teaching.”
• L2 motivational self system and willingness to communicate in the classroom and extramural digital contexts (2021, background): “Nonetheless, when considering an increasingly significant role of emotions in L2 learning and teaching (Prior, 2019), the mediating role of L2 emotions in the relationship between the ideal L2 self and L2 WTC in the classroom merits further investigation.”
• Willingness to communicate in the L2 about meaningful photos: Application of the pyramid model of WTC (2021, background): “Keywords communicative competence, complex dynamic systems theory (CDST), idiodynamics, language anxiety, learner personality, N-of-1 research, self-confidence, willingness to communicate (WTC) Corresponding author: Peter D. MacIntyre, Cape Breton University, 1250 Grand Lake Road, Sydney, NS B1P 6L2”
• Informal digital learning of English and L2 willingness to communicate: roles of emotions, gender, and educational stage (2021, background): “Concurrently, the so-called ‘ emotional turn ’ (White 2018) or ‘ a ff ective turn ’ (Prior 2019) has facilitated research examining the role of emotions in L2 WTC (Lee and Hsieh 2019) and IDLE (Lee 2019a) in exam-oriented Asian countries, where English learners tend to experience positive (e.g.…”