Author(s)

Shi Yuxuan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of English Studies, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China

Corresponding Author

Shi Yuxuan

ABSTRACT

As an important part of English learning, the improvement of students' oral expression is crucial to the realization of university English teaching goals. With the popularization of positive psychology in second language learning, more and more attention has been paid to students' learning emotions. Based on the Control-Value Theory of academic emotions, this study examined 30 English graduate students' oral enjoyment and oral boredom and their interrelationships with control-value evaluations. It is found that learners experience relatively high level of enjoyment and moderate level of boredom; Learners' enjoyment and boredom are negatively correlated; oral learning control-value evaluations can predict enjoyment more significantly, while their predictive effect on boredom is less obvious. The study concludes that teachers should emphasize the value-guidance of oral learning, adopt effective teaching methods to enhance the sense of controllability of oral learning, and create a positive learning environment to enhance students' positive emotional experience and control oral boredom, so as to improve the teaching effect.

KEYWORDS

Control-value theory; foreign language enjoyment; foreign language boredom; oral English learning

CITE THIS PAPER

Shi Yuxuan, A Study of Enjoyment and Boredom in English Graduate Students' Oral English Learning under Control Value Theory. Applied & Educational Psychology (2025) Vol. 6: 23-28. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2025.060104.

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