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In this article, our primary aim is to explore the relationship between teachers’ engagement in teaching and their well-being in a contextualized manner given that teacher engagement does not exist in isolation from the social milieu in which teachers work. To this end, we build on the concept of work engagement developed by Schaufeli et al. (2006)...
Although the number of studies into grit in second/foreign language (L2) learning is on the rise, available empirical evidence is still scant, particularly in relation to links between the two facets of (L2) grit (i.e. perseverance and interest), positive (i.e. enjoyment, curiosity) and negative (i.e. in-class and after-class boredom, anxiety) emot...
This study investigated changes in motivation, self‐efficacy beliefs, and a range of emotions, including enjoyment, hope, pride, curiosity, anxiety, boredom, apathy, confusion, and shame, from a complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective over a 2‐year period in the Hungarian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Using the same questio...
This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. The comparative analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that have the potential to shape classroom learning in the future.
Ensuring learner agency and potential for creativity in task design are likely to elicit different flow experiences among learners, either facilitating or impeding their task engagement and oral or written performance in foreign language learning contexts. However, so far little attention has been paid to the role of these factors in learners’ flow...
The aim of our paper is to explore the predictor variables of autonomous use of technology (Benson, 2011) in relation to second language learning. To this end, we explored motivated learning behavior (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2021), self-efficacy (Bandura, 1986) and several language learning-related emotions, such as enjoyment, pride, hope, curiosity, co...
The investigation of contextual variations in the role of individual difference variables is one of the most important research aims in foreign language pedagogy, especially in teaching environments where there are fluctuations in teaching efficiency. Thus, in our study we aimed 1) to show the ways various emotions, motivational variables, and self...
The aim of this paper is to investigate English majors’ grit-related dispositions and their relationships to motivation and language learning emotions. The importance of this study lies in the fact that general motivation-related investigations could not explain some of the problems of language education in Hungary (Csizér, 2020) and we think that...
Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication. The field has incorporated the different approaches and methodological changes that have characterized SLA scholarship, including technological advances and new designs. The present volume contributes an update on and a systema...
In this chapter, trait questionnaire data from over 300 high school students studying at three different high schools in Budapest are analyzed to shed light on the complex interplay of a range of at least partially affective ID variables, which are hypothesized to be potentially important with regard to leaners’ English language learning in the cla...
In this chapter, the performance of a number of students who produced written narrative tasks and filled in a state questionnaire besides completing the trait questionnaires several times is investigated in detail. I set out to establish links between these learners’ performance on a particular language task and motivation, self-efficacy and emotio...
This chapter provides a general theoretical overview of those affective ID variables and of the affective aspects of those primarily not affective variables that will be examined in the empirical studies later in the book: emotions, motivation, and self-efficacy beliefs. Besides, it contains a section on flow, since the flow experience will also be...
This chapter provides an overview of those concepts and theories in connection with tasks that are the most relevant to the empirical studies which will be discussed in later chapters of the book. First of all tasks are defined, which is followed by a discussion of different task types. Next, potentially important task features are explored: beside...
In this final chapter, I draw conclusions with regard to the role of affective factors in second language learning tasks based on the cumulative findings of the three empirical studies reported in the book. I aim to demonstrate the benefits of investigating a phenomenon, namely the role of affective factors, at micro, meso, and macro levels. By ref...
Besides arguing for the importance of conducting research on the affective determinants of language learning, this chapter deals with two topics. It provides an overview of the Hungarian educational context that is needed for a more insightful appreciation of the empirical studies presented in later chapters of the book. The description of the educ...
This chapter reports the findings of an interview study conducted with teachers of the students whose questionnaire and task-based data were analyzed in Chapters 5 and 6. In an attempt to shed light on what happens in the English classrooms of the students who took part in the empirical studies, teachers were interviewed about the activities, tasks...
This chapter provides an overview of empirical research carried out in connection with emotions, motivation, self-efficacy, and flow on language tasks. The aim was to synthesize the findings of the reviewed studies, which proved to be a difficult task due to the different methodologies and the variety of measures involved. Task-based investigations...
The aim of the research presented in this chapter was to investigate the extent to which emotions and motivation affect the autonomy of students learning English in secondary schools in Hungary. The rationale of our study is that although learner autonomy is increasingly seen as an important goal in education, Hungarian learners’ autonomy seems to...
Task complexity has long been posited as an influential task feature inspiring much research. However, task complexity frameworks might be in need of adjustment, as they tend to emphasize the role of cognitive factors and neglect affective ones despite the fact that learner agency and potential for creativity have been linked to certain aspects of...
Individual differences have long been considered and researched as an important area of applied linguistics, as research findings show clear differences between language learners both in the rate of foreign language learning and in their ultimate success (Dörnyei & Ryan, 2015). Although studies tend to focus on classroom learning mainly, there is a...
The aim of the present article is to provide a systematic review of qualitative studies in the leading journals of our field focusing on their distributional properties in the various journals as well as topic choice and selected quality control issues. In order to achieve this aim, we carried out a systematic review of research articles published...
As systematic research syntheses and meta-analytic studies are becoming more prominent in the social sciences, especially in the fields of psychology and ed-ucation, it appears that applied linguists have also started to follow suit (In’nami et al., 2019). One of the main reasons for this is that abundant knowledge has accumulated through the years...
The qualitative research reported in this article investigated whether English major students at a Hungarian university experience flow in any kind of writing that they engage in and what dimensions of flow they encounter when they feel highly absorbed in their writing tasks. Moreover, it highlighted what might prevent participants from experiencin...
As the effect of contextual factors is increasingly acknowledged in language learning, a greater emphasis tends to be placed on the quality of the learning experience (Csizér & Kálmán, 2019). Educationalists’ quest for the optimal learning experience led them to the concept of flow, which has been researched in different school contexts ever since...
In our longitudinal study, we set out to investigate changes in secondary school students' motivation, autonomy, self-efficacy, and emotions across a schoolyear with the help of a questionnaire survey. While we collected our first set of data in the autumn of 2019, our next point of data collection took place in the spring of 2020, after the lockdo...
My concentration is like breathing. …I never think of it. I am really quite oblivious to my surroundings after I really get going. I think that the phone could ring, and the doorbell could ring, or the house burn down or something like that.…When I start, I really do shut out the whole world. Once I stop I can let it back in again. (Csíkszentmihály...
In Hungary, the academic achievement of schoolchildren is very strongly influenced by their family background, a statement often quoted in connection with PISA surveys (Róbert, 2004). Although the effects of family background have mostly been studied in connection with key competences, it is easy to see that they are also likely to influence foreig...
It has been long acknowledged that learners’ individual characteristics play decisive roles in shaping the learning process (Dörnyei & Ryan, 2015). Still, there are relatively few studies tapping into the roles of various individual difference (ID) variables in concert. Hence, the aim of the present study was to explore the relationships of seconda...
The idea that language learners’ affective states influence their language learning processes is not novel at all. It appeared in the form of attitudes in Gardner’s (1985) model of language learning motivation, and it was also part of Krashen’s (1976) Monitor theory in the form of the Affective Filter. Nevertheless, studies focusing on emotions in...
The aim of the present paper is to outline the research stages that, by the end of
the 2019-2020 academic year, led to the publication of Visual Art & English, a
bilingual, Hungarian-English specialized dictionary of visual art education. The
dictionary is the outcome of a project initiated by the Hungarian University of
Fine Arts with an aim to in...
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 writ...
My paper aims to provide an overview of the concept of creativity and different theories of creativity, with a special emphasis on their cognitive aspects. It is becoming widely acknowledged that, in order for future generations to be able to meet the challenges of the coming decades, radical changes are needed in education. Currently, there is a g...
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This paper presents the results of an exploratory study investigating possible interplays between the construct of foreign language anxiety perceived by advanced-level English majors and monologic oral task performance. While considerable amount of empirical research has been carried out on the negative correlation between language anxiety and fore...
Using Pekrun’s (2014) framework, the aim of our project was to explore what kind of emotions language larners experience.
Methods of communicative and task-based language teaching often employ tasks that require students to use their imagination and to generate new ideas. These tasks might provide creative learners with more chance to practice and to produce more comprehensible output, which could lead to greater success in second language acquisition (SLA) (Swain, 19...
This paper investigates the connections between an individual variable, creativity, and
performance on oral narrative tasks with different levels of cognitive complexity Participants
of the study were 41 Hungarian first-year English major university students whose creativity
was measured with the help of a standardised test. They performed two oral...
The aim of this article is to investigate the effect of creativity on performance in oral narrative tasks. Participants in the study were Hungarian learners whose creativity was measured with a standardized creativity test. We examined the relationships among 3 aspects of creativity—originality, flexibility, and creative fluency—and different measu...
