JALDA's Interview with Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele

Jean-Marc Dewaele (Ph.D. in Romance languages and literature, Free University of Brussels, 1993) is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at the Department of Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck, University of London. He does research on individual differences in psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic, psychological and emotional aspects of Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism. Professor Dewaele is particularly interested in the interface between applied linguistics and psychology. He has published widely on multilingual emotions and Foreign Language Enjoyment and Anxiety. He has published over 300 papers and chapters, seven books and seven special issues. Professor Dewaele is the author of the monograph Emotions in Multiple Languages in 2010 (2nd ed. in 2013). Professor Dewaele has answered JALDA’s questions about emotion research in SLA studies in an offline interview with Davoud Amini, Associate Professor of TEFL at Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University.