Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt Editors: Founding Editor and Editor in Chief: Mirosław Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland) Editor: Jakub Bielak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland) Editor: Mariusz Kruk (University of Zielona Góra, Poland) Editor: Chengchen Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) Editor: Aleksandra Wach (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) Editor: Joanna Zawodniak (University of Zielona Góra, Poland) Language Editor: Melanie Ellis (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland) Vol. 12 No. 1 March 2022 Editorial Board: Ali Al-Hoorie (Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Jubail, Saudi Arabia) Larissa Aronin (Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Helen Basturkmen (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Adriana Biedroń (Pomeranian University, Słupsk, Poland) Simon Borg (University of Leeds, UK) Anne Burns (Aston University, Birmingham, UK, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) Anna Cieślicka (Texas A&M International University, Laredo, USA) Kata Csizér (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) Robert DeKeyser (University of Maryland, USA) Ali Derakhshan (Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran) Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) Zoltán Dörnyei (University of Nottingham, UK) Krystyna Droździał-Szelest (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) Majid Elahi Shirvan (University of Bojnord, Iran) Rod Ellis (Curtin University, Perth, Australia) Danuta Gabryś-Barker (University of Silesia, Poland) Tammy Gregersen (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) Carol Griffiths (University of Leeds, UK, AIS, Auckland, New Zealand) Rebecca Hughes (University of Nottingham, UK) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland) Terry Lamb (University of Westminster, London, UK) Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan, USA) Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland) Jan Majer (State University of Applied Sciences, Włocławek, Poland) Paul Meara (Swansea University, UK) Sarah Mercer (University of Graz, Austria) Anna Michońska-Stadnik (University of Wrocław, Poland) Carmen Muñoz (University of Barcelona, Spain) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) Bonny Norton (University of British Columbia, Canada) Terrence Odlin (Ohio State University, USA) Rebecca Oxford (University of Maryland, USA) Aneta Pavlenko (University of Oslo, Norway) Simone Pfenninger (University of Salzburg, Austria) François Pichette (TÉLUQ University, Quebec, Canada) Luke Plonsky (Northern Arizona University, USA) Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (Opole University, Poland) Vera Regan (University College, Dublin, Ireland) Barry Lee Reynolds (University of Macau, China) Heidemarie Sarter (University of Potsdam, Germany) Paweł Scheffler (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) Norbert Schmitt (University of Nottingham, UK) Michael Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) Linda Shockey (University of Reading, UK) Teresa Siek-Piskozub (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) David Singleton (University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Merrill Swain (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada) Elaine Tarone (University of Minnesota, USA) Pavel Trofimovich (Concordia University, Canada) Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź, Poland) Stuart Webb (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia, Poland) KALISZ – POZNAŃ 2022 FOUNDING EDITOR AND EDITOR IN CHIEF: Mirosław Pawlak EDITORS: Jakub Bielak Mariusz Kruk Chengchen Li Aleksandra Wach Joanna Zawodniak © Copyright by Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny, UAM Poznań Proofreading: Jakub Bielak, Melanie Ellis, Mariusz Kruk, Chengchen Li, Aleksandra Wach, Joanna Zawodniak Cover design: Joanna Dudek Typesetting: Piotr Bajak ISSN 2083-5205 eISSN 2084-1965 Published by: Department of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Kalisz Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Contact information: 62-800 Kalisz, ul. 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Sampson – Shifting focus through a small lens: Discursive and introspective perspectives on the emergence of L2 study emotions ......15 Mariusz Kruk, Mirosław Pawlak, Majid Elahi Shirvan, Tahereh Taherian, Elham Yazdanmehr – Potential sources of foreign language learning boredom: A Q methodology study .................................................... 37 Scott Aubrey – Dynamic engagement in second language computer-mediated collaborative writing tasks: Does communication mode matter? .... 59 Ali Derakhshan, Zohreh R. Eslami, Samantha Curle, Kiyana Zhaleh – Exploring the predictive role of teacher immediacy and stroke behaviors in English as a foreign language university students’ academic burnout ........ 87 Mehmet Altay, Samantha Curle, Dogan Yuksel, Adem Soruç – Investigating academic achievement of English medium instruction courses in Turkey ....117 Notes to Contributors ......................................................................143 7 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt Notes on Contributors Mehmet Altay is Assistant Professor of English language teaching in the Faculty of Education at Kocaeli University, Turkey. His research interests include strategic self- regulation, lexical competence, corpus linguistics, dynamic assessment, and EMI. He has 13 years of work experience as an EFL instructor at two well-established EMI universities in Turkey. He has several publications including book chapters, course- books for EFL learners, and research papers in academic journals such as System, Applied Linguistics Review, Novitas Royal, and Participatory Educational Research. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7227-5685 Contact details: Kabaoğlu, Baki Komsuoğlu bulvarı No. 515, Umuttepe, 41001 İzmit/Kocaeli, Turkey (mehmet.altay@kocaeli.edu.tr) Scott Aubrey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc- tion, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. His main research areas include second language motivation, learner engagement, and task-based language teaching. He is particularly interested in the intersection of learner psychology and instructed second language acquisition, with much of his research involving attempts to capture how learners feel, think, and behave during second language task performances. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4365-0516 Contact details: Room 313, Ho Tim Building, CUHK, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, China (scaubrey@cuhk.edu.hk) Samantha Curle is Assistant Professor of applied linguistics in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK. Her main research interest lies in factors affecting academic achievement in English medium instruction. Her research has been published in journals such as Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics Review, System, Language Teaching Research, Studies in Higher Education, and Interna- tional Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 8 ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3790-8656 Contact details: Department of Education, University of Bath, Building 1 West North, Office 3.17b, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom (samanthamcurle@gmail.com) Ali Derakhshan is Associate Professor of applied linguistics at the English Lan- guage and Literature Department, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran. He has published in both accredited international journals (Computers and Education, Language Teaching Research, System, ELT Journal, Current Psychology, etc.) and various local journals. His research interests are interlanguage pragmatics, inter- cultural communication, teacher education, learner individual differences, and cross-cultural interpersonal factors in educational psychology. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-9339 Contact details: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shahid Beheshti Cam- pus, Golestan University, Shahid Beheshti St, Gorgan, Golestan, Iran, 49138 15759, PO Box: 155 (a.derakhshan@gu.ac.ir) Majid Elahi Shirvan is Associate Professor of foreign language education at the Uni- versity of Bojnord, Iran. His main research interest is the ecology of foreign language learning and teaching. He has published in different international journals such as Ecological Psychology, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Foreign Language Annals, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3363-8273 Contact details: University of Bojnord, Department of Foreign Languages, Bojnord, North Khorasan Province, Iran (elahishmajid@gmail.com; m.elahi@ub.ac.ir) Zohreh R. Eslami is Professor of bilingual/ESL education in the Educational Psy- chology Department at Texas A&M University in College Station, USA. She has published more than 130 articles and book chapters related to instructional and intercultural pragmatics, linguistically and culturally diverse students and their academic and social needs, diversity in English language users and teacher edu- cation, L2 content literacy development, and language teacher education. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2969-5056 Contact details: PhD Program Coordinator, Bilingual/ESL Education Division Depart- ment of Educational Psychology College of Education and Human Development Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4225 (zeslami@tamu.edu) Mariusz Kruk, PhD, works at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland. His main areas of interest include individual difference variables (e.g., boredom, motivation, 9 anxiety) and the application of technology in foreign language learning and teaching. His publications have appeared in various journals including Applied Linguistics Review, Computer Assisted Language Learning, ELT Journal, Journal of Multilingual and Multi- cultural Development, Language Teaching Research, Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching and System. He is the author of the monograph Investigating Dynamic Relationships among Individual Difference Variables in Learning English as a Foreign Language in a Virtual World (2021, Springer). He co-authored Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds with Mirosław Pawlak (2022, Routledge) and Boredom in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Micro-Perspective with Mirosław Pawlak and Joanna Zawodniak (2020, Springer). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5297-1966 Contact details: University of Zielona Góra, Institute of Modern Languages, al. Wojska Polskiego 71a, 65-762 Zielona Góra, Poland (mkruk@uz.zgora.pl) Mirosław Pawlak is Professor of English in the English Department, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland, and Depart- ment of Research on Language and Communication, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland. His main areas of interest are form-focused instruction, corrective feedback, pronuncia- tion teaching, classroom interaction, learner autonomy, learning strategies, mo- tivation, willingness to communicate, boredom and study abroad. His most re- cent publications include Error Correction in the Foreign Language Classroom: Reconsidering the Issues (2015, Springer), Willingness to Communicate in In- structed Second Language Acquisition: Combining a Macro- and Micro-Perspec- tive (with Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak, 2017, Multilingual Matters), Boredom in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Micro-Perspective (with Joanna Zawodniak and Mariusz Kruk, 2020, Springer), and Exploring the Interface Between Individ- ual Difference Variables and the Knowledge of Second language Grammar (2021, Springer Nature). He is Editor of the journals Studies in Second language Learning and Teaching and Konin Language Studies, as well as the book series Second Language Learning and Teaching, published by Springer. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-355X Contact details: Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, ul. Nowy Świat 28-30, 62-800 Kalisz, Poland (pawlakmi@amu.edu.pl) Richard J. Sampson (PhD, Griffith University) has been working in the Japanese education context for over 20 years. He is currently Associate Professor at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. He teaches courses in English communication and lan- guage learning psychology. His research interests include considering various aspects 10 of language learner and teacher psychology from a complexity perspective. He uses action research approaches to explore experiences of classroom language learning from the angles of students and teachers. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9068-317X Contact details: Center for Foreign Language Education and Research, Building 6, Rikkyo University, 3 Chome-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima Ward, Tokyo, Japan 171-8501 (rjsampson@rikkyo.ac.jp) Adem Soruç is Assistant Professor of applied linguistics in the Department of Edu- cation at The University of Bath, UK. He is carrying out research on EMI, English as a lingua franca, and individual learner differences. He has published articles in rep- utable journals such as System, ELT Journal, TESL Canada, Eurasian Journal of Ap- plied Linguistics as well as book chapters in books from Cambridge University Press. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4165-6260 Contact details: Department of Education, University of Bath, Building 1 West North | Office 3.17b, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom (a.soruc@bath.ac.uk) Tahereh Taherian is a PhD candidate of TEFL at Yazd University, Iran. Her main re- search interest is the psychology of language learning and teaching. She has published in several leading journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Applied Linguistics Review. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6338-5054 Contact details: Yazd University, Department of English Language, Yazd, Yazd Province, Iran (taherian87@yahoo.com) Elham Yazdanmehr is Assistant Professor of TEFL at Attar Institute of Higher Ed- ucation, Iran. Her main research interest is the psychology of language learning and teaching. She has published in several international journals including For- eign Language Annals. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9414-7251 Contact details: Attar Institute of Higher Education, Department of English Lan- guage, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (yazdanmehr@attar.ac.ir) Dogan Yuksel is Associate Professor of English language teaching at Kocaeli Uni- versity’s Faculty of Education, Turkey. His research areas of interest include class- room discourse, English medium instruction, and Vygotskyan dynamic assess- ment. His work has been published in such journals as International Journal of Edu- cational Research, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics 11 Review, Linguistics and Education, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), System, ReCALL, and Language Teaching Research. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9131-3907 Contact details: Kabaoğlu, Baki Komsuoğlu bulvarı No:515, Umuttepe, 41001 İzmit/ Kocaeli, Turkey (doganyuksel@gmail.com) Kiyana Zhaleh earned her PhD in TEFL from Allameh Tabataba’i University, Teh- ran, Iran (ATU). She has been a lecturer at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Khatam University, Sharif University of Technology, Golestan University, and Gonbad Ka- vous University in Iran for the past three years. She has published in such jour- nals as Current Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Polish Psychological Bulletin, Language Related Research, TESL-EJ, and Journal of Research in Applied Linguis- tics. Her research interests are teacher education, cross-cultural communica- tion, and applied linguistics. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0918-5246 Contact details: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Per- sian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran (k_zhaleh97@atu.ac.ir)