Emotions and Affect in Language Learning: A Photovoice Study of Learning in Lockdown [Hardcover]

This book explores emotions and affect in language learning during total lockdown during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The books findings presented here will contribute to a better understanding of learning and teaching during challenging circumstances for students and academics of applied linguistics.

Larisa Nikitina is an Associate Professor at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Her research focuses on psychological and emotional factors involved in learning additional languages. Her other research interests include quantitative methods in applied linguistics and natural language processing. She has published extensively in prominent academic journals.

Introduction?1. Perezhivanie: A concept, a theory, and a research tool?2. Perezhivanie in educational research?3. Photography and photovoice as methods of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities?4. Photovoice methodology and its application in the current study?5. Zooming in on students perezhivania?6. Concluding remarks and directions for future research

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This book explores emotions and affect in language learning during total lockdown during the early phase of the COVID19 pandemic when all teaching and learning activities had to transition online. Having classes online and learning in lockdown was an unknown, disconcerting, and emotionally saturated experience for both the teachers and their students majoring in foreign languages.

To explore this, the author conducted a study at a Malaysian university using perezhivanie, a concept introduced by Lev Vygotsky (18961934), as a theoretical foundation for pedagogically oriented research on affect and emotions. It refers to an intense emotional livedthrough experience that often leads to a qualitl“ƒ