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.
"This book is an impressive work that concerns the influence and interaction of the different psycho-social factors characteristic of positive psychology in language education. Furthermore, as a Ph.D. student, it has inspired me to develop my own research on the role of positive psychology and learner emotions in education. ... Pre-service and in-service language teachers, researchers, and educators in both naturalistic and instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) settings will also benefit from this book." (Yujing Qiu, Educational Review, Vol. 74 (3), 2022)