Let’s get positive: How foreign language teaching enjoyment can create a positive feedback loop

burnout; EFL teachers; engage-ment; foreign language teaching enjoyment (FLTE); mindfulness; Education; Language and Linguistics; Linguistics and Language

Abstract :

[en] Research on learners’ foreign language emotions has revealed the existence of a positive feedback loop where increased enjoyment leads to better performance which, in turn, strengthens learners’ enjoyment and boosts overall happiness. The current study follows this avenue focusing on teachers’ foreign language teaching enjoyment (FLTE) and its relationships with engagement, mindfulness, and burnout. The participants, who were 496 English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers from Iran, completed four electronic surveys. The pro-posed mediation model based on data collected from EFL teachers indicated that FLTE partially mediated the relationship between mindfulness and engagement as well as their burnout. The results revealed that mindful EFL teachers who enjoy the profession are more likely to experience higher levels of work engagement and job satisfaction, thus creating a positive feedback loop. In addition, the findings suggest the importance of positive emotions in EFL teachers’ psychological flourishing based on the tenets of positive psy-chology. Finally, implications and suggestions for further research are offered.

Disciplines :

Education & instruction

Author, co-author :

Yang, Shanshan ; Fudan University, China

Noughabi, Mostafa Azari ; Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran

BOTES, Elouise ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Cognitive Science and Assessment ; University of Vienna, Austria

Dewaele, Jean-Marc ; Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Let’s get positive: How foreign language teaching enjoyment can create a positive feedback loop

Publication date :

31 March 2023

Journal title :

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

ISSN :

2083-5205

eISSN :

2084-1965

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Adam Mickiewicz University Press

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Issue :

Pages :

17 - 38

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