Description

• Title:
  Introducing positive psychology to SLA
• Creator:
  Mercer, Sarah;
  MacIntyre, Peter D.
• Description:
  Positive psychology is a rapidly expanding subfield in psychology that has important implications for the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This paper introduces positive psychology to the study of language by describing its key tenets. The potential contributions of positive psychology are contextualized with reference to prior work, including the humanistic movement in language teaching, models of motivation, the concept of an affective filter, studies of the good language learner, and the concepts related to the self. There are reasons for both encouragement and caution as studies inspired by positive psychology are undertaken. Papers in this special issue of SSLLT cover a range of quantitative and qualitative methods with implications for theory, research, and teaching practice. The special issue serves as a springboard for future research in SLA under the umbrella of positive psychology.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Sarah Mercer, Peter D. MacIntyre
• Date:
  2014.01.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2014): Special issue: Positive psychology; 153-172;
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Tom 4 Nr 2 (2014): Special issue: Positive psychology; 153-172;
  2084-1965;
  2083-5205
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/3938/3987
• Subject:
  positive psychology;
  motivation;
  the good language learner;
  humanistic education;
  positive emotion
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/3938
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text