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STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 15-40Publisher
ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIV, KALISZ
DOI: 10.14746/ssllt.2021.11.1.2
Keywords
boredom; English as a foreign language; L2 instruction; micro-perspective; negative emotions
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This article investigates boredom in second language learning and teaching, focusing on its causes such as repetitiveness, monotony and predictability of classroom activities.
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 article focuses on boredom, a construct that has been explored in educational psychology but has received only scant attention from second language acquisition researchers. It reports a study which examined the changes in the levels of boredom experienced by 13 English majors in four EFL classes and the factors accounting for such changes. Using data obtained from a few different sources (i.e., boredom grids, narratives, interviews, class evaluations and lesson plans), it was found that although boredom can be attributed to different constellations of factors, it was mainly traced to repetitiveness, monotony and predictability of what transpired during a particular class.
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