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Positive Psychology in Second and Foreign Language Education

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Editors:
  1. Katarzyna Budzińska

    1. Language Centre, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

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  2. Olga Majchrzak

    1. University of Humanities and Economics, Lodz, Poland

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  • Concerns a relatively new branch of positive psychology
  • Explores further previously studied areas of positive psychology in SLA
  • Introduces new topics such as the role of positive psychology in international higher education, a framework for understanding language teacher well-being from an ecological perspective, or positive institutional policies in language education contexts
  • Presents cutting-edge theory and empirical research carried out with the use of qualitative, mixed method, and quantitative approaches
  • Looks at both teachers and learners
  • Includes authors who are pioneers in the field of positive psychology in SLA

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  3. Empirical

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Positive Psychology, Positive L2 Self, and L2 Motivation: A Longitudinal Investigation

      • Keita Kikuchi, J. Lake
      Pages 79-94

    3. The Link Between Different Facets of Willingness to Communicate, Engagement and Communicative Behaviour in Task Performance

      • Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak
      Pages 95-113

    4. Positive Institutional Policies in Language Education Contexts: A Case Study

      • Katarzyna Budzińska
      Pages 115-135

    5. “What Kind of Teachers We Are (Becoming) and What Kind of Teachers We Might Be”—Making Sense of Duoethnographic Positive Psychology-Related Experience by Preservice English Teachers

      • Dorota Werbińska
      Pages 137-158

    6. Between Expectations and a Sustainable Teaching Career: The Results of a Metaphor Study

      • Olga Majchrzak, Patrycja Ostrogska
      Pages 159-184
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About this book

This book demonstrates how resources taken from positive psychology can benefit both teachers and learners. Positive psychology is the empirical study of how people thrive and flourish. This book explores a range of topics, such as affectivity and positive emotions, engagement, enjoyment, empathy, positive institutions, a positive L2 self-system, as well as newly added Positive Language Education. Some papers in this collection introduce new topics such as the role of positive psychology in international higher education, a framework for understanding language teacher well-being from an ecological perspective, or positive institutional policies in language education contexts.

Reviews

“This book is an impressive work that concerns the influence and interaction of the different psycho-social factors characteristic of positive psychology in language education. Furthermore, as a Ph.D. student, it has inspired me to develop my own research on the role of positive psychology and learner emotions in education. … Pre-service and in-service language teachers, researchers, and educators in both naturalistic and instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) settings will also benefit from this book.” (Yujing Qiu, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Language Centre, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

    Katarzyna Budzińska

  • University of Humanities and Economics, Lodz, Poland

    Olga Majchrzak

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Positive Psychology in Second and Foreign Language Education

  • Editors: Katarzyna Budzińska, Olga Majchrzak

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64444-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64443-7Published: 03 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64446-8Published: 04 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64444-4Published: 02 March 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 222

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education

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