Exploring the relationship between emotionality and L2 language learning, this book offers a narrative focus on learners and their teacher in Japan.

Richard J. Sampson (PhD, Griffith University) has been working in the Japanese education context for more than 20 years. He is currently an Associate Professor at Rikkyo University, teaching courses in English communication and language learning psychology. His research focuses on the social and dynamic emergence of language learner and teacher psychology by drawing on complexity thinking. He uses action research approaches to explore experiences of classroom language learning from the perspectives of students and teachers. Richard has published widely in international journals and is the author of "Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation: A Practitioner Perspective from Japan" (Multilingual Matters, 2016), and co-editor (with Richard Pinner) of "Complexity Perspectives on Researching Language Learner and Teacher Psychology" (Multilingual Matters, 2021).

1. The Emotionality of Additional Language Learning, 2. From Simplicity to Complexity: Recent Explorations of L2 Study Emotions, 3. Interactions Between the Whole and Parts in the Emergence of L2 Study Feelings, 4. Focusing a Small Lens on Experiential and Discursive Context, 5. Co-adaptive Emergence of Emotional Intersubjectivity, 6. Widening the Lens: The (Re)Construction of Anxiety and Enjoyment, 7. Widening the Lens: L2 Study Emotions and Agentic Personality, 8. Weaving Threads for Researching, 9. Pedagogy for Emotionally-charged Educational Spaces