ERIC Number: EJ1175378
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-2083-5205
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Advanced Learners' Foreign Language-Related Emotions across the Four Skills
Piniel, Katalin; Albert, Ágnes
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, v8 n1 p127-147 2018
Individual differences researchers have recently begun to investigate the concept of emotions and their role in language learning (MacIntyre, Gregersen, & Mercer, 2016). Our aim is to report on a project exploring English majors' feelings related to their use of foreign languages. Using a qualitative research design, participants were asked to write a paragraph in their mother tongue (Hungarian) describing their emotional experiences in connection with foreign languages and one of the four language skills. Our database comprised altogether 166 paragraphs from 31 male and 135 female students, with 43 texts on listening, 35 on speaking, 47 on reading, and 41 on writing. With the help of content analytical techniques, the texts were divided into thematic units and coded by the two authors. A framework of academically-relevant emotions (Pekrun, 2014) was used to guide our initial coding and the categories were modified where it was felt necessary. Results indicate that the two emotions most frequently experienced by English majors are predominantly related to enjoyment and language anxiety, and these emotions vary not only according to the skill involved but also depending on the context of language use (in class or outside class).
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Skills, Guidelines, Content Analysis, Individual Differences, Role, Emotional Experience, Databases, Coding, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Language Usage, Context Effect, Native Language, Hungarian, Writing (Composition), Qualitative Research, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
Adam Mickiewicz University Department of English Studies. Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Ul. Nowy Swiat 28-30, 62-800 Kailsz, Poland. e-mail: ssllt@amu.edu.pll; Web site: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hungary (Budapest)
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