<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>To balance the research that has been carried out on negative emotions, the researchers in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) have recently focused on the role of positive academic emotions and their role in the process of acquiring a foreign language (FL). The aim of the present article is to examine the relationships between foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and students’ academic achievement in English in order to prove that these two emotions do not constitute opposite dimensions but may converge and diverge from time to time during the learning process. This article calls for a more dynamic approach to studying emotions and investigating whether and to what extent these two emotions may mutually shape one another and thus affect learners’ achievement in the foreign language classroom.</p></abstract>

To balance the research that has been carried out on negative emotions, the researchers in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) have recently focused on the role of positive academic emotions and their role in the process of acquiring a foreign language (FL). The aim of the present article is to examine the relationships between foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and students’ academic achievement in English in order to prove that these two emotions do not constitute opposite dimensions but may converge and diverge from time to time during the learning process. This article calls for a more dynamic approach to studying emotions and investigating whether and to what extent these two emotions may mutually shape one another and thus affect learners’ achievement in the foreign language classroom.

Anxiety and Enjoyment in the Foreign Language Classroom

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To balance the research that has been carried out on negative emotions, the researchers in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) have recently focused...

Anxiety and Enjoyment in the Foreign Language Classroom

Published Online: Dec 26, 2019

Page range: 107 - 121

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2019-0007

Keywords
foreign language enjoyment, foreign language anxiety, SLA, positive psychology

© 2019 Ewelina Mierzwa, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Anxiety and Enjoyment in the Foreign Language Classroom

Published Online: Dec 26, 2019

Page range: 107 - 121

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2019-0007

Keywordsforeign language enjoyment, foreign language anxiety, SLA, positive psychology

© 2019 Ewelina Mierzwa, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
foreign language enjoyment, foreign language anxiety, SLA, positive psychology