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Foreign Language Enjoyment and Boredom of Non-English Majors in the EFL Classroom

Yingjun Hu, Tianhui Zhang

Abstract


This article aims to investigate two emotions, which are foreign language enjoyment and foreign language boredom of non-English majors in Chinese private colleges. FLES and FLBS, the two most commonly used instrument were used as items in the questionnaire. The data showed that teacher-related boredom could most determine learners enjoyment in EFL classes though this kind of boredom scored the lowest of the seven dimensions of foreign language boredom.

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Foreign language enjoyment; Foreign language boredom; Non-English-majors; Chinese private colleges

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/cle.v2i3.4746

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