Social identity biases, particularly the tendency to favor one’s own group (ingroup solidarity) and derogate other groups (outgroup hostility), are deeply rooted in human psychology and social behavior. However, it is unknown if such biases are also pre
Furthermore, children also need to learn how to comprehend and express emotions, establish interpersonal connections, and develop skills related to emotional regulation. Early development in language proficiency and social-emotional abilities lays the foundation for future social interactions, emotional ...
Nature Human Behaviour volume 8, pages 1877–1889 (2024)Cite this article 1697 Accesses 18 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract The ways people use language can reveal clues to their emotions, social behaviours, thinking styles, cultures and the worlds around them. In the past two decades, research...
Emotional engagement relates to students’ feelings or emotions about teachers, peers, or the learning process, encompassing reactions like interest, boredom, happiness, sadness, and anxiety during a course (Skinner & Belmont, 1993).The fundamental concept of cognitive engagement revolves around the dep...
TheOxford English Dictionary’sdefinition –“originally U.S. advocacy of or conformity to politically correct views; politically correct language or behaviour” (OED online, 2021) – is arguably unhelpful, especially since the linguist Geoffrey Hughes claims that political correctness involves itself wit...
Additionally, two cases were observed where students utilized various paralinguistic resources, such as pitch, volume, and intonation, to convey their comprehension of adjectives for describing emotions. In order to address concerns regarding the representativeness of the analysed extracts in this study, ...
Drawing upon Frenzel’s (2014) framework of appraisals, the current study explored language teachers’ emotional experiences and their antecedents in the online teaching context. Moreover, the interrelations between teachers’ emotions and their instruct
Due to the spread of Covid-19, universities had to move their courses online abruptly. This paper explores its impact on 510 European tertiary-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ classroom emotions and analyses possible links to their tr
Average rating of the partner’s cooperative communication, affiliation, and dominance by the self for different levels of perceived smart reply (SR) use by the partner (N = 361). Error bars show one cluster-robust standard error above and below the mean. See Supplementary Table S6 for detail...
For centuries, adults may have relied on pedagogies that promote rote memory for the learning of foreign languages through word associations and grammar rules. This contrasts sharply with child language learning which unfolds in socially interactive contexts. In this paper, we advocate an approach to...