All Journals

Language Teaching Research Quarterly

European Journal of Studies in Management and Business

International Journal of Behavior Studies in Organizations

Studies in Educational Management

New Challenges in Accounting and Finance

Language Testing in Focus: An International Journal

Marketing and Branding Research

Individual Differences in Language Education: An International Journal 

Feedback Research in Second Language 

Management Issues in Healthcare System

Language Teacher Education Research

Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Development

<p style="text-align: justify;">This study reports on anxiety, enjoyment, and breakdown fluency of L2 English learners under the monologue and dialogue conditions using an idiodynamic approach. Eight Mandarin-speaking undergraduates from a top university in China voluntarily participated in the study, with half completing in a monologue condition and the other half in a dialogue condition. The results showed that both monologue and dialogue groups exhibited a significant positive correlation between anxiety and breakdown fluency, and a significant negative correlation between enjoyment and breakdown fluency. However, these correlations were more pronounced in the dialogue group. The study also revealed that the monologue group experienced significantly less anxiety (p &lt; 0.05) and more enjoyment (p &lt; 0.001) in L2 speaking than the dialogue group. Nevertheless, there was no significant difference in breakdown fluency between the two groups (p = 0.152). Last but not least, the study found that learners&rsquo; emotional fluctuations could be subject to cognitive, task implementation, task design, and interpersonal factors.</p>

ltrq.2025.48.14.pdf

Original Research 

ltrq.2025.48.14.xml

Understanding Anxiety, Enjoyment, and Breakdown Fluency in L2 Monologic and Dialogic Speaking: An Idiodynamic Approach

Guest-editors: 
Mirosław Pawlak, PhD, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland
Zhisheng (Edward) Wen, PhD, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Hassan Mohebbi, PhD, Independent Researcher, Turkey


Special Issue: In Honour of Peter D. MacIntyre’s Contributions to Psychology of Language and Communication and Second Language Research Methodology