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Research on motivation and emotion in English language learning has been conducted in various contexts; however, the links between emotions and motivation have not been sufficiently explored. This study aims to reflect the relationships between students’ emotions and motivation in the Vietnamese tertiary learning contexts, and these reciprocal relations were reflected by students themselves. The study was conducted with a qualitative perspective using students’ written narratives. Participants in this study were second-year university students. The results of this study also indicated that teachers as mediators played an important role in shaping and changing students’ emotions. It seemed that teachers’ actions and words affected the turning of students’ negative emotions into positive energy and positive engagement. The findings also showed that teachers’ encouragement brought hope to their students. Supportive interpersonal interactions in the social context seemed to play a role in constructing emotions in a language learning setting. As a result, those positive emotions enhanced students’ self-efficacy and motivated them to study.
Biography
Nguyen Thi Anh Hong is an English university lecturer and an officer of the Department of Science, Technology and International Affairs at Thai Nguyen University. She has been teaching English for more than twenty years. She has worked with learners from different areas of Vietnam and adults who migrated to New Zealand from some Asian countries. Hong did her PhD course in New Zealand. Her field of study is in applied linguistics, and she is interested in researching emotion, especially in positive emotions and hope, motivation, engagement, and students’ and teachers’ agency. Hong is an experienced English teacher in syllabus design, material development, and testing assessment. As a researcher, she is passionate about reviewing papers; she is a reviewer for the TNU Journal of Science and Technology. Hong also has experience in management as she used to be the Deputy Head of the Foreign Languages Division at the university, where she has been giving lectures for twelve years.
