TY - JOUR
T1 - Do teachers' well-being and resilience predict their Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment (FLTE)?
AU - Wei, Rining
AU - Yang, Xiaoyan
AU - Wang, Jing
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This study was one (partial) replication of the first study focusing on FL teacher enjoyment with the Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment (FLTE) Scale. The influence of well-being, resilience, and some selected socio-biographical variables on FLTE was examined with a more refined data analysis approach based on hierarchical regression (i.e., offering a range of effect sizes for each predictor). Results showed that resilience (ΔR2 = 11.7%-38.9%) and well-being (ΔR2 = 3.6%-30.9%) were important factors statistically significantly predicting FLTE for Chinese EFL teachers, whereas length of teaching experience (ΔR2 = 0.1%-2.2%) was not regarded as an important predictor and gender (ΔR2 = 0.02%-0.13%) was deemed unimportant. This replication study has (1) confirmed that well-being and resilience predict FLTE, (2) reaffirmed the value of the above-mentioned more refined approach, and (3) underscored the benefit for including at least one socio-biographical variable together with the researchers' focal factors as predictors in hierarchical regression, which will provide useful reference for the relative importance of each predictor. Some practical implications are also discussed.
AB - This study was one (partial) replication of the first study focusing on FL teacher enjoyment with the Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment (FLTE) Scale. The influence of well-being, resilience, and some selected socio-biographical variables on FLTE was examined with a more refined data analysis approach based on hierarchical regression (i.e., offering a range of effect sizes for each predictor). Results showed that resilience (ΔR2 = 11.7%-38.9%) and well-being (ΔR2 = 3.6%-30.9%) were important factors statistically significantly predicting FLTE for Chinese EFL teachers, whereas length of teaching experience (ΔR2 = 0.1%-2.2%) was not regarded as an important predictor and gender (ΔR2 = 0.02%-0.13%) was deemed unimportant. This replication study has (1) confirmed that well-being and resilience predict FLTE, (2) reaffirmed the value of the above-mentioned more refined approach, and (3) underscored the benefit for including at least one socio-biographical variable together with the researchers' focal factors as predictors in hierarchical regression, which will provide useful reference for the relative importance of each predictor. Some practical implications are also discussed.
KW - Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment
KW - effect size
KW - positive psychology
KW - resilience
KW - well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85171731162&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/applirev-2022-0115
DO - 10.1515/applirev-2022-0115
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85171731162
SN - 1868-6303
JO - Applied Linguistics Review
JF - Applied Linguistics Review
ER -