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: Kata Csizér (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) 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. 2 June 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) 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) Amy Thompson (West Virginia University, 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: Kata Csizér Mariusz Kruk Chengchen Li Aleksandra Wach Joanna Zawodniak © Copyright by Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny, UAM Poznań Proofreading: Kata Csizér, 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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Indexing and abstracting Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching is currently indexed and/or abstracted in the following databases: · Social Sciences Citation Index (WoS Core Collection) · Journal Citation Reports Social Sciences (WoS) · Scopus · European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH PLUS) · Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) · Index Copernicus · Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) · The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH) · The MLA International Bibliography · The MLA Directory of Periodicals · Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) · EBSCO · Linguistic Abstracts · WorldCat (OCLC) · Current Contents – Social and Behavioral Sciences (WoS) · Essential Science Indicators (WoS) Special issue: Conducting research syntheses on individual differences in SLA Guest editors: Kata Csizér Ágnes Albert Katalin Piniel Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz Volume 12, Number 2, June 2022 http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt Contents Notes on Contributors .....................................................................153 Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on conducting research syntheses on individual differences in SLA ..................................................157 Articles: Katalin Piniel, Anna Zólyomi – Gender differences in foreign language classroom anxiety: Results of a meta-analysis ...................................173 Elouise Botes, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Samuel Greiff – Taking stock: A meta- analysis of the effects of foreign language enjoyment .................... 205 Julia Goetze, Meagan Driver – Is learning really just believing? – A meta- analysis of self-efficacy and achievement in SLA ............................ 233 Zia Tajeddin, Neda Khanlarzadeh, Hessameddin Ghanbar – Learner variables in the development of intercultural competence: A synthesis of home and study abroad research ...................................................................................261 Ágnes Albert, Kata Csizér – Investigating individual differences with qualitative research methods: Results of a meta-analysis of leading applied linguistics journals ........................................................................................... 303 Notes to Contributors ......................................................................337 153 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 Ágnes Albert is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Applied Lin- guistics at Eötvös University, Budapest and holds a PhD in Language Pedagogy. Her research interests include task-based language learning and individual dif- ferences with a focus on learner creativity and positive emotions related to for- eign language learning. Currently, she is a member of a research team investi- gating the motivation, autonomy, and positive and negative emotions of sec- ondary school learners about their English classes. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8339-7119 Contact details: Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Rákóczi út 5, 1088 Budapest, Hun- gary (albert.agnes@btk.elte.hu) Elouise Botes is a post-doc researcher in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Vienna. She recently graduated with a PhD in psychology from the University of Luxembourg and is a registered or- ganizational psychologist in South Africa. She has published numerous articles examining the emotions in language learning, individual differences in learning and behavior, and psychometric validation studies. Her research interests in- clude emotions in foreign language learning, positive psychology, personality psychology, and individual differences in education. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4952-8386 Contact details: University of Vienna, University of Vienna, Department for De- velopmental and Educational Psychology, NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vi- enna, Austria (elouise.botes@univie.ac.at) Kata Csizér is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her main research interests are the social psychological aspects of L2 learning and teach- ing as well as foreign language motivation. She has published over 100 academic 154 papers and has co-authored several books, including the recent Palgrave Mac- millan Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning with Martin Lamb, Alastair Henry, and Stephen Ryan. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1755-8142 Contact details: Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Rákóczi út 5, 1088 Budapest, Hun- gary (wein.kata@btk.elte.hu) Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism. He has published widely on individual differences in classroom emotions. He is for- mer president of the International Association of Multilingualism and the Euro- pean Second Language Association and General Editor of the Journal of Multi- lingual and Multicultural Development. He won the Equality and Diversity Research Award from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013), the Robert Gardner Award for Excellence in Second Language and Bilingualism Research (2016) from the International Association of Language and Social Psy- chology and the EUROSLA Distinguished Scholar Award (2022) from the Euro- pean Second Language Association. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-0977 Contact details: Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics, Malet Street, LondonWC1E 7HX, United King- dom (j.dewaele@bbk.ac.uk) Meagan Driver is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies and a core faculty member in the Second Language Studies (SLS) PhD Program and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Dr. Driver is an applied lin- guist who specializes in mixed-methods approaches to heritage and second language acquisition (SLA). Within this realm, her research implements cognitive theories and methodologies to explore topics including affect, bilingualism and multilingualism and study abroad, and the relationship with a range of linguistic, psychological, and social factors, including vocabulary learning, moral judgment, and identity. Presently, her work explores the relationship between various emotions, including interest and linguistic insecurity, and questions surrounding linguistic and ethnoracial identity, spe- cifically with respect to the acquisition of a heritage or foreign language. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6712-4521 Contact details: 3850 Tunlaw Rd. NW Apt. 805 Washington, DC 20007 (driverme@ msu.edu) 155 Hessameddin Ghanbar is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Islamic Azad University, Fereshtegaan International Branch, Tehran, Iran. His areas of interest include meta-analysis and research synthesis in L2 research. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8895-3791 Contact details: Islamic Azad University, Fereshtegaan International Branch, Iran Zamin, Shahrak Gharb, Tehran, Iran (hessam.ghanbar@gmail.com) Julia Goetze is Assistant Teaching Professor and the German language coordina- tor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Penn- sylvania State University, USA. His research focuses on instructed second language acquisition. She specializes in the investigation of the psychology of teachers in the foreign language classroom, such as teacher emotions and their relationship with cognitive processes, their beliefs and belief system formation, how their behaviors influence language teaching and learning. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4856-760X Contact details: The Pennsylvania State University 442 Burrowes Building Uni- versity Park, PA 16802 (jzg5860@psu.edu) Samuel Greiff is Full Professor of Educational Assessment and psychology at University of Luxembourg. He holds a PhD in cognitive and experimental psy- chology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Prof. Greiff has been awarded several research funds by diverse funding organizations, was fellow in the Luxembourg research program of excellency, and has published articles in national and international scientific journals and books. He serves (or has served) as editor for several journals: Editor-in-chief for Learning and Individual Differences and European Journal of Psychological Assessment and Associate Ed- itor for Intelligence and Journal of Educational Psychology. His work mainly fo- cuses on educational and psychological assessment, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and education in the 21st century. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2900-3734 Contact details: University of Luxembourg, Department of Behavioral and Cog- nitive Sciences Maison des Sciences Humaines, 11 Porte de Sciences, 4366 Esch- sur-Alzette, Luxembourg (samuel.greiff@uni.lu) Neda Khanlarzadeh is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at Allameh Tabat- aba’i University, Tehran, Iran. Her areas of interest are discourse studies, second language pragmatics, and (intercultural) teacher education. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-9467 156 Contact details: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Per- sian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba’i University, South Al- lameh Street, Saadatabad, Tehran, Iran (nedakhanlarzadeh@yahoo.ca) Katalin Piniel, PhD, works at the Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. She is particularly interested in conducting research on the dynamic interrelationship of individual differences in foreign language learning. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9225-3301 Contact details: Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Rákóczi út 5, 1088 Budapest, Hun- gary (brozik-piniel.katalin@btk.elte.hu) Zia Tajeddin is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Lan- guage Teaching, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. His research interests cen- ter on L2 pragmatics, intercultural education, and teacher education in EIL/ELF. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0430-6408 Contact details: Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humani- ties, Tarbiat Modares University, Jalal Ale-Ahmad Highway, Tehran, Iran (tajeddinz@ modares.ac.ir; zia_tajeddin@yahoo.com) Anna Zólyomi is a third-year PhD student in applied linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Her main areas of research include language ap- titude and explicit/implicit learning processes. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9280-5775 Contact details: Department of English Applied Linguistics, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Rákóczi út 5, 1088 Budapest, Hun- gary (zolyomi.anna@btk.elte.hu)