RT Journal Article
T1 Foreign Language Enjoyment and Subjective Happiness in Spanish Adult Learners
A1 Barrios-Espinosa, María Elvira
A1 Acosta-Manzano, Irene
K1 Inglés - Estudio y enseñanza
AB Background. Research interest in FLE and its associated factors has increased in recentyears, especially regarding learner-internal factors. Happiness could potentially be one of thepredictors of FLE.Purpose. This study aimed to investigate the link between foreign language enjoyment (FLE)and a measure of subjective happiness (SH).Methods. A total of 594 adult foreign language learners aged 16 to 72 participated in the study.Ten items extracted from the FLE scale and the SH scale translated and validated into Spanishwere used to gather the data.Results. With a significant 3.6% shared variance between FLE and SH, the study found thatparticipants with higher scores on FLE have higher scores on SH. However, the percentageof shared variance found is considerably higher for different subgroups (e.g., 6.7% for theolder adolescent group and 10% for mature and senior adults). The results suggest that therelationship between personality variables and FLE may differ depending on learner-internalfactors such as age, gender, competence level and foreign language.Implications. The study opens a new line of research into the interaction between FLE andhappiness, and factors affecting it with a sample that, due to the wide range of participantages and the number of participants beyond their twenties, is more representative of the adultforeign language learner population than is usually the case in studies of FLE.
PB National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
YR 2022
FD 2022-06-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33102
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33102
LA eng
NO BarriosE., & Acosta-ManzanoI. (2022). Foreign Language Enjoyment and Subjective Happiness in Spanish Adult Learners. Journal of Language and Education, 8(2), 66-79. https://doi.org/10.17323/jle.2022.13506
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026