How teacher behaviour shapes foreign language learners’ enjoyment, anxiety and attitudes/motivation: A mixed modelling longitudinal investigation
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The current study investigates how foreign language enjoyment (FLE), classroom anxiety (FLCA) and attitude/motivation (AM) of 360 learners English, German, French Spanish in a Kuwaiti university was shaped over the course one semester by three teacher behaviours: frequency using (FL) class, predictability joking. Linear mixed modelling revealed positive relationship between behaviours FLE as well AM, but no significant emerged with FLCA. Multiple comparison analyses showed that levels dropped significantly among students whose joked very infrequently infrequently. It thus seems absence jokes had delayed cumulative effect on FLE. No interaction effects were found time for FLCA AM. We conclude affect both AM FLE, joking actually shapes time.
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عنوان ژورنال: Language Teaching Research
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1477-0954', '1362-1688']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688221089601