PP interventions reduce language learning anxiety¶
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q2 i? A 30-day reflection-based PP intervention significantly decreased students' anxiety about language learning. → Jia 2025
Evidence¶
Jia 2025¶
Miao, J., Tian, X., Zhang, L., Zhang, B., & Ma, L. (2025). An analysis of the empirical research on SL/FL teaching and learning based on positive psychology: a systematic literature review. BMC Psychology, 13, 319. doi:10.1186/s40359-025-02576-5
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The review reports an intervention study in which students reflected on language learning successes over 30 days; "This reflection was associated to a range of positive feelings, which significantly decreased the students' anxiety about language learning".
"This reflection was associated to a range of positive feelings, which significantly decreased the students’ anxiety about language learning."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Academic Anxiety — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Positive psychology enhances SL/FL learning engagement and well-being — related
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- Cyclic sighing buffers phase-level anxiety accumulation: controls' anxiety rose across the intervention while the breathwork group stayed near baseline — related
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- The mindfulness interventions did not significantly change anticipatory or executive state-MA relative to cognitive support alone — related
- Anxiety relief from cyclic sighing is time-locked to learning-proximal moments, with lower anxiety at 11:00/13:00/15:00 prompts than at 20:00 during intervention — related
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