AUTHOR=Huang Jian , Jiang Guiying TITLE=The Predictive Effects of Gender and Academic Discipline on Foreign Language Enjoyment of Chinese High School Students JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.802152 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.802152 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) plays a facilitative role in FL learning and its contributing factors have been the object of scholarly attention in the Positive Psychology approach to second language acquisition (SLA). The present study examined the predictive effects of gender and academic discipline on overall FLE and each of its subcomponents in a specific Chinese EFL context. Statistical analyses based on a sample of 1,718 high school students showed that: (1) female students scored significantly higher in overall FLE,