Individual trajectories of boredom in learning English as a foreign language at the university level: insights from three students’ self-reported experience

Boredom is one of the most pervasive and unpleasant emotions in school settings, yet it still remains a neglected and underappreciated research area (Daschmann, Goetz, and Stupnisky, 2011. “Testing the predictors of boredom at school: Development and validation of the precursors to boredom scales.” British Journal of Educational Psychology 81: 421–440), especially in relation to the language classroom. The present study set out to fill this gap...