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Learner-internal and learner-external factors for boredom amongst Chinese university EFL students

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ID21196552
AutoresChengchen Li (0000-0002-7262-3309, Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Ye Han (0000-0002-6463-0605, Harbin Institute of Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume15
Fascículo3
Páginas901-926
Data de publicação2024-05-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoApplied Linguistics Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1868-6303 • E-ISSN: 1868-6311
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/applirev-2021-0159
OpenAlexW4297541670
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas37

Despite the ubiquity of boredom and its aversive effects in educational contexts, it has received scant attention from second/foreign language (L2) researchers until very recently. This article reports on one of the first empirical attempts to explore boredom in L2 learning and its sources in Chinese tertiary-level EFL contexts through eliciting responses of 1,502 university students to open-ended questions and conducting 16 individual semi-structured interviews. The qualitative data analysis revealed that participants perceived wide-ranging learner-internal and learner-external factors as sources of their foreign language learning boredom: (1) task characteristics, (2) teaching and learning activities, (3) student factors, (4) course content, (5) classroom factors, (6) teacher factors, and (7) feeling unoccupied in the class. Moreover, open-ended responses showed greater prominence of the first three categories of factors than others, lending support to the central role of control-value appraisals in inducing boredom, and suggesting situation-sensitive nature of boredom. Additionally, the study revealed that multiple factors, both learner-internal and learner-external, can interact and jointly shape control-value appraisals, which suggests the congruence between the person-in-context perspective on SLA and the control-value theory, and the potential to integrate the two approaches to extend L2 emotion research

Boredom · Feeling · Foreign language · Mathematics education · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation · Mind wandering and attention · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citações por ano5,5
Intervalo de citações2022 - 2026 (5)
Velocidade de citaçãocurrent
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