Teacher enthusiasm and students’ social-behavioral learning engagement: The mediating role of student enjoyment and boredom in Chinese EFL classes

Teacher enthusiasm is attracting growing attention in educational and learner psychology research. There evidence that teacher contagious class positively affects student emotions. Their fundamental role shaping engagement has also been well documented. However, the links – between emotions, emotions remain underexplored instructed second language acquisition. The present study adopted a mixed-method approach to examine complex relationships perceived enthusiasm, (enjoyment boredom), social-behavioral learning among 2,002 learners of English as foreign (EFL) from 11 universities China. Quantitative analyses showed small large correlations enjoyment, boredom, engagement. In addition, enjoyment boredom were found co-mediate relationship perceptions classes. Qualitative interviews with nine students provided insights into potential causes statistical patterns. Theoretical pedagogical implications are discussed, followed by directions for future