Jean‐Marc Dewaele

24.9k total citations · 33 hit papers
264 papers, 14.2k citations indexed

About

Jean‐Marc Dewaele is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean‐Marc Dewaele has authored 264 papers receiving a total of 14.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Language and Linguistics, 71 papers in Social Psychology and 58 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jean‐Marc Dewaele's work include EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (112 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (47 papers) and Second Language Learning and Teaching (46 papers). Jean‐Marc Dewaele is often cited by papers focused on EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (112 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (47 papers) and Second Language Learning and Teaching (46 papers). Jean‐Marc Dewaele collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Austria. Jean‐Marc Dewaele's co-authors include Peter D. MacIntyre, Chengchen Li, Livia Dewaele, Elouise Botes, Kazuya Saito, Samuel Greiff, Jiang Yan, Guiying Jiang, Adrian Furnham and Li Wei and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Personality and Individual Differences and BMC Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Jean‐Marc Dewaele

253 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The two faces of Janus? Anxiety and enjoyment in the foreign language classroom
    2014 971 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Peter D. MacIntyre profile →
  2. Foreign language enjoyment and anxiety: The effect of teacher and learner variables
    2017 518 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Livia Dewaele et al. profile →
  3. The Flowering of Positive Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching and Acquisition Research
    2019 438 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  4. How unique is the foreign language classroom enjoyment and anxiety of Chinese EFL learners?
    2019 360 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. System profile →
  5. Understanding Chinese high school students’ Foreign Language Enjoyment: Validation of the Chinese version of the Foreign Language Enjoyment scale
    2018 354 citations Chengchen Li, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. System profile →
  6. Teacher enthusiasm and students’ social-behavioral learning engagement: The mediating role of student enjoyment and boredom in Chinese EFL classes
    2021 312 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Chengchen Li profile →
  7. Motivation, Emotion, Learning Experience, and Second Language Comprehensibility Development in Classroom Settings: A Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Study
    2018 296 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  8. Does the effect of enjoyment outweigh that of anxiety in foreign language performance?
    2018 294 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  9. Emotions in Multiple Languages
    2010 292 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele profile →
  10. Enjoyment and anxiety in second language communication: An idiodynamic approach
    2018 233 citations Peter D. MacIntyre, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  11. The dynamic interactions in foreign language classroom anxiety and foreign language enjoyment of pupils aged 12 to 18. A pseudo-longitudinal investigation
    2017 219 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Livia Dewaele SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  12. Emotions in Second Language Acquisition: a critical review and research agenda
    2020 216 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Chengchen Li BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) profile →
  13. The Effect of Perception of Teacher Characteristics on Spanish EFL Learners’ Anxiety and Enjoyment
    2019 210 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. Modern Language Journal profile →
  14. The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and Academic Achievement: An Overview of the Prevailing Literature and a Meta-analysis
    2020 204 citations Elouise Botes, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) profile →
  15. Foreign language learning boredom: Conceptualization and measurement
    2021 199 citations Chengchen Li, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  16. The Effect of Classroom Emotions, Attitudes Toward English, and Teacher Behavior on Willingness to Communicate Among English Foreign Language Learners
    2019 184 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele profile →
  17. The complex relationship between classroom emotions and EFL achievement in China
    2019 183 citations Chengchen Li, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  18. Do Girls Have All the Fun? Anxiety and Enjoyment in the Foreign Language Classroom
    2016 163 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Peter D. MacIntyre et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  19. Modeling the contribution of resilience, well-being, and L2 grit to foreign language teaching enjoyment among Iranian English language teachers
    2022 159 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. System profile →
  20. The Development and Validation of the Short Form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale
    2021 155 citations Elouise Botes, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. Modern Language Journal profile →
  21. Taking stock: A meta-analysis of the effects of foreign language enjoyment
    2022 151 citations Elouise Botes, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  22. Learner-internal and learner-external predictors of Willingness to Communicate in the FL Classroom
    2018 145 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Livia Dewaele SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  23. Are foreign language learners’ enjoyment and anxiety specific to the teacher? An investigation into the dynamics of learners’ classroom emotions
    2020 130 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Livia Dewaele profile →
  24. Sources and effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom: A structural equation modeling approach
    2022 113 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Elouise Botes et al. Studies in Second Language Acquisition profile →
  25. Do well-being and resilience predict the Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment of teachers of Italian?
    2021 112 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. System profile →
  26. Classroom environment and willingness to communicate in English: The mediating role of emotions experienced by university students in China
    2022 95 citations Chengchen Li, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  27. A Three-Body Problem: The effects of foreign language anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom on academic achievement
    2023 95 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Elouise Botes et al. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics profile →
  28. Validating the Short-form Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale
    2022 91 citations Elouise Botes, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  29. How Foreign Language Enjoyment Acts as a Buoy for Sagging Motivation: A Longitudinal Investigation
    2022 75 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  30. Foreign Language Enjoyment and Anxiety: Associations With General and Domain-Specific English Achievement
    2022 63 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Chengchen Li profile →
  31. How teacher behaviour shapes foreign language learners’ enjoyment, anxiety and attitudes/motivation: A mixed modelling longitudinal investigation
    2022 62 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →
  32. Foreign language learning boredom: Refining its measurement and determining its role in language learning
    2024 34 citations Chengchen Li, Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. Studies in Second Language Acquisition profile →
  33. Modeling the associations between L2 teacher support and EFL learners’ reading motivation: The mediating impact of reading enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom
    2025 18 citations Jean‐Marc Dewaele et al. profile →

Peers

Jean‐Marc Dewaele
Peter D. MacIntyre Canada
Kimberly A. Noels Canada
David Crystal United Kingdom
Elaine K. Horwitz United States
Lawrence Jun Zhang New Zealand
John J. Gumperz United States
Elinor Ochs United States
Rebecca L. Oxford United States
Richard Clément Canada
Stephen Krashen United States
Peter D. MacIntyre Canada
Jean‐Marc Dewaele
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All Works

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Li, Chengchen, et al.. (2025). Language attitude and willingness to communicate: A longitudinal investigation of Chinese young EFL learners. Learning and Individual Differences. 118. 102639–102639. 4 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2024). Valence and arousal perception among first language users, foreign language users, and naïve listeners of Mandarin across various communication modalities. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 27(5). 874–885. 1 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2024). Foreign language enjoyment overcomes anxiety and boredom to boost oral proficiency in the first year of English foreign language learning. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 35(1). 152–167. 13 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2024). Does multilingualism affect foreign language classroom anxiety and foreign language enjoyment?. Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras. 13–29. 8 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2024). Do bilinguals have an emotional advantage? An exploratory study on the interplay of language, culture and emotion. Language Culture and Curriculum. 38(2). 158–174. 3 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2023). Developing a short language classroom engagement scale (LCES) and linking it with needs satisfaction and achievement. System. 120. 103189–103189. 30 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2023). A Three-Body Problem: The effects of foreign language anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom on academic achievement. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 43. 7–22. 95 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2023). How frequency and intensity of exposure to a foreign language boosts its emotional resonance. International Journal of Multilingualism. 21(4). 1968–1982. 7 indexed citations
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Botes, Elouise, Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Samuel Greiff, & Thomas Goetz. (2023). Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 46(1). 51–74. 22 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2022). Levels of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety and boredom in emergency remote teaching and in in-person classes. Language Learning Journal. 52(1). 117–130. 53 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2021). Differences in emotional reactions of Greek, Hungarian, and British users of English when watching television in English. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 31(3). 345–361. 19 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Livia & Jean‐Marc Dewaele. (2020). Actual and Self-Perceived Linguistic Proficiency Gains in French during Study Abroad. Languages. 6(1). 6–6. 14 indexed citations
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Costa, Beverley & Jean‐Marc Dewaele. (2018). The talking cure—building the core skills and the confidence of counsellors and psychotherapists to work effectively with multilingual patients through training and supervision. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 19(3). 231–240. 19 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc, et al.. (2016). Do Girls Have All the Fun? Anxiety and Enjoyment in the Foreign Language Classroom. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 163 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc. (2014). It takes two to tango: the dynamic interaction of emotional and psychological aspects in foreign language learning. BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London). 7 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc & Li Wei. (2014). Intra- and inter-individual variation in self-reported code-switching patterns of adult multilinguals. International Journal of Multilingualism. 11(2). 225–246. 46 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc. (2013). The link between foreign language classroom anxiety and psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism among adult Bi‐ and multilinguals. Modern Language Journal. 97(3). 670–684. 115 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc. (2010). The perception of French by native speakers and advanced L2, L3 and L4 learners. BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London). 3 indexed citations
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Dewaele, Jean‐Marc. (2000). Three years old and three first languages. BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London). 1 indexed citations

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