Rescheduled - Seminar I Emotions in Task-based Language Teaching
Seminars / Lectures / Workshops
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Date
25 Sep 2025
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Organiser
Department of English and Communication
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Time
17:00 - 18:00
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Venue
To be confirmed
Speaker
Professor Chengchen Li
Summary
Due to the approach of Super Typhoon Ragasa to Hong Kong, the seminar "Emotions in Task-based Language Teaching," originally scheduled for 25 September, will be postponed. Further details regarding the new date and arrangements will be announced in due course. Please stay tuned for updates. Thank you for your understanding, and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has predominantly focused on task features, cognitive learner factors, and negative emotions, particularly anxiety. This narrow focus risks portraying learners as emotionless or perpetually anxious. In this talk, I will advocate for the importance of exploring a broader range of learner emotions in TBLT. The presentation is divided into three parts. First, I will outline the rationale for investigating diverse learner emotions, drawing on key insights from positive psychology, educational psychology, and cognitive psychology. Second, I will present findings from two empirical studies examining task emotions (i.e. task enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom) in L2 speaking and writing contexts. Finally, I will discuss the pedagogical implications of these findings and their potential to inform more emotionally responsive TBLT practices.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Chengchen Li
School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Chengchen Li is a full professor of applied linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her research interests include positive psychology, L2 writing, task-based language teaching, and bilingualism and cognition. She has published widely in journals including Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language Teaching Research, Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and System. She is Co-Editor of the Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language Teaching Research, Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Systemas well as associate editor ofBilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language Teaching Research, Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and System. She is Vice President of the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning. Dr. Li has been included in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researcher list (2024) and Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists list (2022-2024).
