Young learners’ well-being and emotions: Examining enjoyment and boredom in the foreign language classroom

Young learners’ well-being and emotions: Examining enjoyment and boredom in the foreign language classroom

• Tsang, Art The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Davis, Christelle

The Asia - Pacific Education Researcher, 33(6), 1481-1488, 2024

Springer

2024

• C Psychology & Learning
  • CC Motivation of Learning
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching

Young Learners Foreign Language Education Enjoyment and Boredom Class Activities

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

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Emotions have received widespread attention in the education field globally thanks to the greater emphasis on well-being in recent times. Against this backdrop and the fact that foreign language (FL) education is increasingly common from a young age, this study set out to investigate what FL classroom activities children find most enjoyable and most boring, and why. Ninety-eight Grade-5 English-as-a-FL learners in Hong Kong participated in this study. The participants put forward 18 activities that they thought were most enjoyable, especially games and videos (together making up about 49% of the responses) . Fifteen activities were deemed most boring, especially writing and dictation (together 45% of the responses). Fun , knowledge-gaining , and opportunities for interaction were among the most common reasons given for activities being enjoyable, while difficult , troublesome , and tiring were the main descriptors of the activities they thought were boring. Copyright ©2024 Springer.

• English

Journal Articles

• 01195646

• 10.1007/s40299-024-00828-3

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/80eadca7

2025-10-14