Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil's in the detail

BOTES, Elouise; Dewaele, Jean-Marc; GREIFF, Samuel; Goetz, Thomas

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Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil's in the detail

BOTES, Elouise; Dewaele, Jean-Marc; GREIFF, Samuel et al.

2024 • In Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 46 (1), p. 51 - 74

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[en] Personality has been identified as a possible antecedent to emotions experienced in the foreign language (FL) classroom. However, contrasting results and differing personality models have resulted in ambiguous findings. This study set out to delve deeper into the role of personality as a predictor of FL emotions through a series of increasingly restrictive statistical models on a sample of n = 246 FL learners. The relationships between personality - operationalized as global and lower order factors in the five factor model - and the FL emotions of Foreign Language Enjoyment, Anxiety, and Boredom were examined. The global factors of Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness, and the lower order factors of Trust, Dutifulness, and Cheerfulness were significant predictors of FL emotions. However, the complexity of personality as a predictor variable is demonstrated in the intricacy of the results and as such the inclusion of personality in explanatory models of FL emotions ought to be approached with caution.

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

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

GREIFF, Samuel ; University of Luxembourg

Goetz, Thomas ; University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil's in the detail

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24 March 2024

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition

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0272-2631

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Cambridge University Press

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51 - 74

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