2 Toward a Psychology of Well- Being for Language Learners: The ‘EMPATHICS’ Vision

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. 2 Toward a Psychology of Well- Being for Language Learners: The ‘EMPATHICS’ Vision 10
6. Part 1: Theoretical
7. 3 Seeing the World Through Your Eyes: Empathy in Language Learning and Teaching 91
8. 4 The Dynamics of Past Selves in Language Learning and Well-Being 112
9. 5 Language Learning and Teaching: What’s Love Got To Do With It? 130
10. Part 2 Empirical
11. 6 Positive Psychology Exercises Build Social Capital for Language Learners: Preliminary Evidence 147
12. 7 The Triumph Over Experience: Hope and Hardiness in Novice L2 Teachers 168
13. 8 Advanced Language Learners’ Experiences of Flow in the Hungarian EFL Classroom 193
14. 9 Foreign Language Enjoyment and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety: The Right and Left Feet of the Language Learner 215
15. 10 Accentuate the Positive: Conceptual and Empirical Development of the Positive L2 Self and Its Relationship to L2 Proficiency 237
16. 11 Affect in Directed Motivational Currents: Positive Emotionality in Long-Term L2 Engagement 258
17. 12 Project Perseverance: Helping Students Become Self-Regulating Learners 282
18. Part 3 Applied
19. 13 Happiness in ESL/EFL: Bringing Positive Psychology to the Classroom 305
20. 14 Teaching to Learn and Well-Become: Many Mini- Renaissances 324
21. 15 Why and How to Use Positive Psychology Activities in the Second Language Classroom 344
22. 16 Music and Language Learning: Emotions and Engaging Memory Pathways 359
23. 17 Conclusion 374
24. Index 380