Mind needs body! Practicing positive psychology in English language teaching

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dc.contributor.authorLudwig, Christian
dc.contributor.authorSambanis, Michaela
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-17T08:28:34Z
dc.date.available2023-08-17T08:28:34Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractPositive emotions are recognised as important for successful foreign language learning. Learners develop a positive attitude towards a language, are motivated to learn, and experience enjoyment through regular, meaningful, and positive engagement. Little attention, however, has so far been paid to the links between Positive Psychology, one of the reasons for the growth of interest in emotions, and embodied cognition which advocates the importance of the body and positive sensations for successful learning. While methods such as Total Physical Response (TPR) can help to get learners moving in class, learning through drama seems to be particularly apt to facilitate embodied learning. Students physically engage with situations, characters, and feelings as they inhabit different spaces, often collaboratively. This paper first introduces embodied cognition. It then discusses the links between embodiment and Positive Psychology, taking Seligman's PERMA MODEL as a point of reference. Following this, it shows how embodied learning can be integrated in the English as a foreign language classroom by using techniques from improvisational theatre.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationLudwig, C. and Sambanis, M. (2023) 'Mind needs body! Practicing positive psychology in English language teaching', Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 17(1), pp. 88-97. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.17.1.5en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.17.1.5
dc.identifier.endpage97
dc.identifier.issn1649-8526
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journalabbrevScenarioen
dc.identifier.journaltitleScenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage88
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14867
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of German, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-17-1-5
dc.rights© 2023, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectDrama-based learningen
dc.subjectEmbodied cognitionen
dc.subjectPositive psychologyen
dc.subjectGesture-based learningen
dc.subjectImproven
dc.titleMind needs body! Practicing positive psychology in English language teachingen
dc.typeArticle (non peer-reviewed)en
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