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2026

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183
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Overview

Jean-Marc Dewaele is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Psychology and Arts and Humanities, with a substantial emphasis on the subfields of Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their work addresses main topics such as EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Emotional Intelligence and Performance, Second Language Learning and Teaching, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Education Practices and Challenges, Communication in Education and Healthcare, and Education, Achievement, and Giftedness.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jean-Marc Dewaele include:

  • Elouise Botes
  • Samuel Greiff
  • Pia Resnik
  • Chengchen Li
  • Peter D. MacIntyre

They have published extensively in various academic venues, with the most common being:

  • System
  • Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Applied Linguistics Review
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Among their recent papers are:

  • Teacher enthusiasm and students' social-behavioral learning engagement: The mediating role of student enjoyment and boredom in Chinese EFL classes (2021), Language Teaching Research
  • The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and Academic Achievement: An Overview of the Prevailing Literature and a Meta-analysis (2020), Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning
  • Foreign language learning boredom: Conceptualization and measurement (2021), Applied Linguistics Review
  • The Development and Validation of the Short Form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (2021), Modern Language Journal
  • Modeling the contribution of resilience, well-being, and L2 grit to foreign language teaching enjoyment among Iranian English language teachers (2022), System

Jean-Marc Dewaele is also an author of book publications, including a title published by Multilingual Matters eBooks: The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching (2020).

Best Publications

  • The two faces of Janus? Anxiety and enjoyment in the foreign language classroom

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Peter D. MacIntyre

  • Emotions in Multiple Languages

    Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • The Flowering of Positive Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching and Acquisition Research.

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Xinjie Chen;Amado M. Padilla;J. Lake

  • Foreign language enjoyment and anxiety: the effect of teacher and learner variables

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;John Witney;Kazuya Saito;Livia Dewaele

  • The emotional force of swearwords and taboo words in the speech of multilinguals

    Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • 9 Foreign Language Enjoyment and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety: The Right and Left Feet of the Language Learner

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Peter D. MacIntyre

  • Effects of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Sociobiographical Variables on Communicative Anxiety and Foreign Language Anxiety among Adult Multilinguals: A Review and Empirical Investigation

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;K. V. Petrides;Adrian Furnham

  • Extraversion: The Unloved Variable in Applied Linguistic Research

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Adrian Furnham

  • Understanding Chinese high school students’ foreign language enjoyment: validation of the Chinese version of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale

    Chengchen Li;Guiying Jiang;Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • How unique is the foreign language classroom enjoyment and anxiety of Chinese EFL learners

    Yan Jiang;Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • Lexical Inventions: French Interlanguage as L2 versus L3

    Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • Investigating the Psychological and Emotional Dimensions in Instructed Language Learning: Obstacles and Possibilities

    Jean–Marc Dewaele

  • Teacher enthusiasm and students’ social-behavioral learning engagement: The mediating role of student enjoyment and boredom in Chinese EFL classes:

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Chengchen Li

  • Personality and speech production: a pilot study of second language learners

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Adrian Furnham

  • Does the effect of enjoyment outweigh that of anxiety in foreign language performance

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Mateb Alfawzan

  • Emotion Vocabulary in Interlanguage

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Aneta Pavlenko

  • Motivation, emotion, learning experience and second language comprehensibility development in classroom settings: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study

    Kazuya Saito;Jean-Marc Dewaele;Mariko Abe;Yo In'nami

  • The effect of positive orientation and perceived social support on foreign language classroom anxiety

    Yin Xing Jin;Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • The emotional weight of I love you in multilinguals' languages

    Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • The effect of multilingualism/multiculturalism on personality: no gain without pain for Third Culture Kids?

    Jean-Marc Dewaele;Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven

  • Psychological and sociodemographic correlates of communicative anxiety in L2 and L3 production

    Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • Why the Dichotomy ‘L1 Versus LX User’ is Better than ‘Native Versus Non-native Speaker’

    Jean-Marc Dewaele

  • Motivational strategies in the language classroom

    Jean-Marc Dewaele

Frequent Co-Authors

Li Wei
Li Wei University College London
Peter D. MacIntyre
Peter D. MacIntyre Cape Breton University
Aneta Pavlenko
Aneta Pavlenko Temple University
Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
Amado M. Padilla
Amado M. Padilla Stanford University
Kimberly A. Noels
Kimberly A. Noels University of Alberta
Susan M. Gass
Susan M. Gass Michigan State University

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