Exploring fluctuations in the relationship between learners’ positive emotional engagement and their interactional behaviours

This study investigated the nature of learners’ positive emotional engagement during a task-based interaction and its relationship with their interactional behaviours. Vietnamese learners English as foreign language (EFL; n = 74) performed communicative task in dyads 15 minutes. Their was gauged using an Experience Sampling Method via questionnaire that participants completed after every five-minute interval interaction, capturing three timepoints engagement. Learners’ cognitive social behaviours were examined light amount second production (words turns), language-related episodes (LREs), degree collaboration. Results showed fluctuated over course 15-minute interaction. Also, levels positively correlated collaboration, but these relationships varied across intervals. No observed between LREs. The results indicate although may not be linked attention to form, exist production, well relationships. These can be, however, subject change short