Emotions and Affect in Language Learning: A Photovoice Study of Learning in Lockdown

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Larisa Nikitina (Universiti Malaya, Malaysia)

Emotions and Affect in Language Learning

A Photovoice Study of Learning in Lockdown

Larisa Nikitina (Universiti Malaya, Malaysia)

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Routledge
17 April 2025

Language acquisition; Language Teaching (non-ELT); Social impact of disasters; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Educational psychology

Series: Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics

This book explores emotions and affect in language learning during total lockdown during the early phase of the COVID‑19 pandemic when all teaching and learning activities had to transition online. Having classes online and learning in lockdown was an unknown, disconcerting, and emotionally saturated experience for both the teachers and their students majoring in foreign languages.

To explore this, the author conducted a study at a Malaysian university using perezhivanie, a concept introduced by Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934), as a theoretical foundation for pedagogically oriented research on affect and emotions. It refers to an intense emotional lived‑through experience that often leads to a qualitative change within an individual. To capture the students’ experiences of learning in total lockdown, she also employs photovoice methodology as an analytical approach. In her book, Nikitina demonstrates using the photovoice method to capture the emotional ebbs and flows inherent in perezhivania. The theoretical framework of perezhivanie and novel photovoice methodology adopted in this book can be employed in future explorations of emotional labours of students and their teachers in a wide range of educational settings.

This book’s theoretical anchoring, robust methodology, and rigorous analysis of visual and linguistic data findings presented in this book will contribute to a better understanding of learning and teaching during challenging circumstances for students and academics of applied linguistics, psychology of language learning, or second language acquisition.

By: Larisa Nikitina (Universiti Malaya Malaysia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9781032883700
ISBN 10: 1032883707
Series: Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics
Pages: 90
Publication Date: 17 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Perezhivanie: A concept, a theory and a research tool 2. Perezhivanie in educational research 3. Photography and photovoice as methods of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities 4. Photovoice methodology and its application in the current study 5. Zooming in on students’ perezhivania 6. Concluding remarks and directions for future research

Larisa Nikitina is an Associate Professor at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Her research focuses on psychological and emotional factors involved in learning additional languages. Her other research interests include quantitative methods in applied linguistics and natural language processing. She has published extensively in prominent academic journals.