Emotional intelligence, as concerned with how an individual recognizes and regulates his or her emotions, has been in limelight quite recently. The present study seeks to fill a small gap in the literature on emotional intelligence, together with foreign language anxiety and empathy. To this end, short literary readings are used in a cognitive-affective reading-based course to see how emotional...

One of the important abilities of learners is to monitor their own learning process and take charge of their development. To this end and based on the correlational nature of the study design, total of 125 students (for the Winter semester of 2017) educating at Zanjan Universities (89 B.A. students of Islamic Azad University and 60 B.A. students of Payam-e-Noor University) were chosen as the st...

This paper reports on a study that took positive psychology approach to foreign language anxiety reduction. More specifically, it investigated whether reminiscing about achievements could effectively diminish the learners’ classroom anxiety. It also explored patterns nested in process. To this end, 88 first Chinese university students of English were randomly assigned into experimental (n = 43)...