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 Lasocińska, Łukasz Zaorski-Sikora.

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.