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Record Nr.

UNINA9910410009203321

Autore

Pawlak Mirosław

Titolo

Boredom in the Foreign Language Classroom : A Micro-Perspective / / by Mirosław Pawlak, Joanna Zawodniak, Mariusz Kruk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-50769-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 pages)

Collana

Second Language Learning and Teaching, , 2193-7648

Disciplina

418.0071

Soggetti

Applied linguistics

Language and education

Applied Linguistics

Language Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Approaching Boredom from a Theoretical angle -- 2. Approaching Boredom from an Empirical angle -- 3. Design of the Study -- 4. Findings of the Study. - 5. Conclusions, Directions for Future Research and Pedagogical Implications. .

Sommario/riassunto

The book focuses on boredom, a construct that has been explored in educational psychology but has received only scant attention from second language acquisition researchers. Although recent years have seen a growing interest in positive emotions in second or foreign language learning and teaching, negative emotions are always present in the classroom and they deserve to be investigated in their own right. The theoretical part provides an overview of the construct of boredom (e.g., definitions, types, empirical studies in the L2 classroom). The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to examine the changes in the levels of boredom experienced by a group of English majors in English classes and identify the factors accounting for such changes. The book closes with a discussion of directions for further research as well as some pedagogic implications. .