Contemporary Perspectives on Multilingualism and Emotional Expression: An Interview with Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele

[1] Dewaele, J.-M., 2023. System's 50th anniversary special issue in conversation with Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele. System. 118, 103140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2023.103140

[2] Dewaele, J.-M., Pavlenko, A., 2002. Emotion Vocabulary in Interlanguage. Language Learning. 52(2), 263–322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/0023-8333.00185

[3] Dewaele, J.-M., Pavlenko, A., 2001. Web Questionnaire Bilingualism and Emotions. University of London: London, UK.

[4] Pavlenko, A., 2005. Emotions and Multilingualism. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

[5] Keysar, B., Hayakawa, S.L., An, S.G., 2012. The Foreign-Language Effect: Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases. Psychological Science. 23(6), 661–668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611432178

[6] Costa, B., Dewaele, J.-M., 2014. Psychotherapy across languages: beliefs, attitudes and practices of monolingual and multilingual therapists with their multilingual patients. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 14(3), 235–244. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2013.838338

[7] Dewaele, J.-M., Furnham, A., 1999. Extraversion: The Unloved Variable in Applied Linguistic Research. Language Learning. 49(3), 509–544. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/0023-8333.00098

[8] Dewaele, J.-M., 2005. Investigating the Psychological and Emotional Dimensions in Instructed Language Learning: Obstacles and Possibilities. The Modern Language Journal. 89(3), 367–380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2005.00311.x

[9] Dewaele, J.-M., MacIntyre, P.D., 2014. The two faces of Janus? Anxiety and enjoyment in the foreign language classroom. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching. 4(2), 237–274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2014.4.2.5

[10] Dewaele, J.-M., 2022. Enjoyment. In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences. Routledge: New York, NY, USA. pp. 190–206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003270546-16

[11] Li, C., Jiang, G., Dewaele, J.-M., 2018. Understanding Chinese high school students' Foreign Language Enjoyment: Validation of the Chinese version of the Foreign Language Enjoyment scale. System. 76, 183–196. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.06.004

[12] Mercer, S., Gregersen, T., 2025. Transformative positive psychology in the acquisition of additional languages. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 46(9), 2671–2686. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2194869

[13] Dewaele, J.-M., 2010. Emotions in Multiple Languages. Palgrave-MacMillan: Basingstoke, UK.

[14] Costa, B., Dewaele, J.-M., 2019. 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12187

[15] Dewaele, J.-M., Costa, B., 2013. Multilingual Clients' Experience of Psychotherapy. Language and Psychoanalysis. 2(2), 31–50.

[16] Cook, S.R., Dewaele, J.-M., 2026. “I Own My Life Now”: Implications of Trauma Survivors' Language Acquisition for a Pedagogy of Empowerment in TESOL. TESOL Quarterly. tesq.70068. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.70068

[17] Dewaele, J.-M., Botes, E., Resnik, P., et al., 2025. Reply to Shao, Stockinger, Marsh and Pekrun (2023). Applying control-value theory for examining multiple emotions in L2 classrooms: Validating the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire—Second Language Learning. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.48993

[18] Resnik, P., Dewaele, J.-M., Li, C., et al., 2025. The role of positive and negative emotions in foreign language learning: A research agenda. Language Teaching. 1–26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444825101031

[19] Mercer, S., Gregersen, T., 2020. Teacher Wellbeing. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

[20] Dörnyei, Z., Dewaele, J.-M., 2022. Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing, 3rd ed. Routledge: New York, NY, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003331926

[21] Dewaele, J.-M., Rolland, L., Cook, S., et al., 2022. Mixed Methods When Researching Sensitive Topics. In: Bager-Charleson, S., McBeath, A. (Eds.). Supporting Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Springer International Publishing: Cham, Switzerland. pp. 247–266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13942-0_13