This book demonstrates how resources taken from positive psychology can benefit both teachers and learners. Positive psychology is the empirical study of how people thrive and flourish. This book explores a range of topics, such as affectivity and positive emotions, engagement, enjoyment, empathy, positive institutions, a positive L2 self-system, as well as newly added Positive Language Education. Some papers in this collection introduce new topics such as the role of positive psychology in international higher education, a framework for understanding language teacher well-being from an ecological perspective, or positive institutional policies in language education contexts.

Inhalt
Exploring Applications of Psychology in SLA.- Understanding the Ecology of Foreign Language Teacher Wellbeing.- From Culturally to Emotionally Responsive Teaching in International Higher Education.- Enjoyment in the Foreign Language Classroom: Does Gender Matter? A Review of Selected Empirical Studies.- Positive Psychology, Positive L2 Self, and L2 Motivation: A Longitudinal Investigation.- The Link Between Different Facets Of Willingness to Communicate, Engagement and Communicative Behaviour in Task Performance.- Positive Institutional Policies in Language Education Contexts: A Case Study.- What Kind of Teachers We Are (Becoming) And What Kind of Teachers We Might Be Making Sense of Duoethnographic Positive Psychology-Related Experience by Preservice English Teachers.- Between the expectations and a sustainable teaching career: The results of a metaphor study.- (Positive) Affectivity in A Foreign Language Classroom: Trainees´ Response to an Introductory Course in Positive Psychology.- Developing Learner's Reflectiveness through Biographical Narrative and Metaphor Kamila Lasociska, ukasz Zaorski-Sikora.