Teacher enthusiasm and its impact on students’ learning and emotions have remained unnoticed in the realm of second language learning and teaching. This study aimed at exploring the possibility of boosting language teacher enthusiasm and its potential relationship with language learners’ effort and attitude for language learning. In order to foster teacher enthusiasm, the highly novel concept o...

Teacher enthusiasm and its impact on students’ learning and emotions have remained unnoticed in the realm of second language learning and teaching. This study aimed at exploring the possibility of boosting language teacher enthusiasm and its potential relationship with language learners’ effort and attitude for language learning. In order to foster teacher enthusiasm, the highly novel concept o...

Although teacher enthusiasm is a relevant variable in the teaching context, a clear definition is still lacking. Research on teacher enthusiasm is characterized by ambiguous conceptualizations of enthu siasm as either an affective characteristic of teachers or behaviors of expressiveness. Integrating these two notions, a new conceptualization of dispositional teacher enthusiasm, defined by teac...

Teacher Enthusiasm: The Intermediary Factor between School Climate and Teachers’ Professional Attitudes   H. Massaah* S.H.R. Oreyzi Saamaani, Ph.D.** M. Kalaantari, Ph.D.***   Teachers’ enthusiasm is of considerable significance within the contemporary positive psychology as it acts as an intermediary between many other variables such as school climate and teachers&r...

Class-related boredom is commonly experienced by students and it has an impact on their learning engagement and achievements. Previous research has found that perceived teacher enthusiasm might contribute to reducing students' class-related boredom. However, the mechanism through which perceived teacher enthusiasm affects class-related boredom remains unexplored. The purpose of the present stud...

The main aim of efforts to improve teaching is create conditions that are more supportive student learning and social development. most tangible output activities occurs during the conducted in classroom environment. It therefore reasonable focus on what happens teaching. quality interactions between students teachers affected by emotional states both parties. Positive emotions arising from an ...