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The realm of foreign language acquisition emphasizes the affective dimension of learning rather than only cognitive. This affective turn has focused on how EFL students’ emotions affect learning a new language and culture, as well as identity development. This survey article examines the kinds of emotions students experience, the causes of emotions and their potential effects on learning, based on the emotioncy model. Ten students majoring in English participated in cognitive interviews and they were asked to elaborate on the tensions they might have encountered or are currently encountering. Based on the interview results, emotioncy management is one of the instructors’ abilities that plays a significant role in the process of foreign identity development. Further, in order to facilitate successful learning, emotioncy should be materialized to the practical level to be an apropos signifier in meeting students’ emotional needs.

A dictionary is a repository of various kinds of linguistic information about words. It presents general information about words such as the words’ meaning, pronunciation, etymology, and the syntactic category to which it belongs, collocational or idiomatic structures in which it may be found. Given the significance of linguistic information presented in the dictionaries, Persian dictionaries suffer from lack of psycho-cultural information which reflects and presents the culture of a society and as the result, should necessarily be included in them. Keeping the importance of this kind of information in mind, and considering the significance of psychological factors in speakers’ knowledge of the world as well as considering sensory experience as the cornerstone of emotional and cognitive abilities and believing that reality is relative, drawing upon the newly proposed sensory concept of emotioncy, this study attempts to introduce emotioncy and its components (emotion, sense and frequency) as useful tools in dictionary making. To this end, the present study will shed some light on sensory and emotional experiences of words of the languages so as to ultimately uncover the origins of the gap in the current dictionaries and enrich them by adding some missed but important and useful information about the words of the languages. Finally, although the findings of the present study is suggestive, further research into the this may help develop it in a broader empirical framework.

To date, some research has been carried out on Persian neologisms from linguistics, linguistic typology or sociolinguistics perspectives; however, research from a psycholinguistic perspective offers new insights into Persian neologisms and their foreign equivalents. Employing the concept of emotioncy (emotioncy+frequency of senses), the present study compares the cultural weight of seven Persian neologisms and their foreign equivalents to discover why the public accept or reject the words, approved by the academy of Persian language and literature. Moreover, the study examines the role of their native language in the application of these words. To this end, 223 participants in the quantitative phase and 61 participants in the qualitative phase of the study were selected from the public based on convenience sampling and data saturation to participate in the study. The study follows a sequential mixed-methods design which consists of qualitative and quantitively phases to collect the relevant data. The results of the t-test show that there is a significant difference between the six pairs in terms of emotioncy. Moreover, the results of One-way ANOVA confirm that there is a significant difference in three of the selected words with respect to the native language of the speakers, including Persian, Kurdish and Turkish in terms of emotioncy. After determining the inter-rater agreement and inter-rater reliability of the data, the qualitative results reveal 16 reasons for the acceptance of the foreign equivalents, such as positive association, beautiful-sounding words and high frequency. Also, eight reasons for the non-acceptance of the Persian neologisms are identified like negative association, hard sounding words and low frequency. Indeed, to promote the acceptance and application of neologisms, the academy of Persian language and literature should take not only linguistic but also psycho-sociolinguistics issues into consideration.

Persian language is one of the main cores of national identity in Iran; hence, efforts should be made to preserve it and awareness about it should be raised. The Supreme Council for Higher Education introduced a compulsory two-credit course for the history of Persian language. There is no doubt that this course demands a coursebook to facilitate learning and teaching as it is really important that coursebooks content be systematically arranged so that learning is not negatively affected or hampered. Research has it that content which is unfit and unsuitable and is not in line with student learning capacity results in the inefficiency of learning and teaching. Therefore, determining and developing effective course content according to the learners’ demands and cognitive and learning capacities is a must (Niknafs & Aliabadi, 2013).The interconnectedness of emotions and learning underpins the importance of students’ emotional engagement with the course content as the content should look and sound appealing enough to them. Narration appears to be a powerful technique to make the content engaging and attractive and to increase students’ motivation for learning. Narration is a sequence of events happening in time and place (Lothe, 2009). Numerus forms of narration can be found and this study focuses on the application of short stories as narrative text. Accordingly, text has diverse functions, including referential, emotive, persuasive, phatic, metalingual, and poetic, and each function plays a pivotal role in student’s successful learning. Metalingual and poetic functions bring about enjoyment and amusement and greatly affect audience. Also, the use of emotive and phatic functions can give pleasure to audience and give a sense of knowledge and understanding. The persuasive function shapes people’s attitudes and enables the sense of empathy, identity and imprinting. As a result, the learner directly encounters the content and can feel and analyze it. This helps students better internalize the information and learning materials. Additionally, when students are emotionally engaged in the stories and identify with the characters, they can easily memorize the materials (Sovia & Afrineta, 2017).Students’ emotional experiences can improve their ability to learn as emotions act as facilitators within the classroom and strengthen interactions among teachers and students, resulting in boosting the motivation for learning (Meyer & Turner, 2006).On account of the interconnectedness of emotions and learning, Pishghadam (2015) introduced the emotioncy notion which is a combination of emotion and frequency, wherein emotions are counted as the core of learning. This model hinges on the varying degrees of sensory emotions each word has and carries for individuals in their own society and these emotions are constructed through frequent exposure to diverse types of senses. More specifically, an individual has a higher degree of emotioncy towards a word when they have heard, seen, touched, experienced that word (Pishghadam et al., 2013). Emotioncy, as Pishghadam (2015) introduces, stands on a hierarchical matrix of six levels, including Null (0), Auditory (1), Visual (2), Kinesthetic (3), Inner (4), and Arch (5) or more specifically, avolvement (null) and exvolvement (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic) to involvement (inner and arch).Null emotioncy happens when an individual has not heard about, seen, or experienced an object or a concept while Auditory emotioncy has it that an individual has merely heard about a word. Visual emotioncy concerns the fact that an individual has both heard about and seen the item and Kinesthetic emotioncy occurs when an individual has touched, worked, or played with the real object. It is Inner emotioncy where an individual has directly experienced the word and Arch emotioncy implies that an individual has done research to get additional information.Despite the fact that motivation and emotions have been of importance in preparing and compiling educational resources and influence teachers and learners, the importance of the psychological factors in designing coursebooks has been ignored. This is because the main objective of many coursebooks is to convey information, and consequently, students’ emotions and feelings are simply overlooked. On the whole, relying upon the significance of students’ emotions and motivations in learning, the present study attempts to bring to the light the model of narrative-based emotioncy as a tentative model for revising coursebooks featuring history of Persian language.

In view of the fact that culture is of importance in teaching Persian, the application of cultulings sounds relevant. Cultuling are words and phrases reflecting the culture of people; notably Shahnameh, appears to be good sources for education. Intending to reflect on a method for teaching culture in light of “cultuling analysis model", that is a comprehensive model for pinpointing cultural models and patterns, this study examined the cultuling of mortal thoughts in the Shahnameh. In doing so, 130 pieces of utterances concerning mortal thoughts were taken from Dehkhodā’s Proverbs and Mottos, which originally belonged to the Shahnameh. They were analyzed from the perspective of the SPEAKING model the type of emotion and frequency of people’s experience with this cultuling was evaluated based on the emotioncy model and the embedded culture in this cultuling was scrutinized. The results show that this cultuling holds a high frequency in the Shahnameh. Together with their auditory, visual and kinesthetic ways of experiencing mortal thoughts, people tended to use this culturing for encouraging charity, dealing with the inevitability of death, acknowledging the fear of death, avoiding worldly desires and acknowledging the universality of death. The cultuling of mortal thoughts mirrors an Iranian culture featuring collectivism, restraint, short term orientations and uncertainty avoidance. To teach these cultural values and patterns, the researchers chose a text, which contained the cultulings in questions and was designed according to the SPEAKING model. The text was then taught in light of emotioncy; a model underlying the of emotions in learning and teaching.

Given the differences between first language and second language learning in adults, simulating first language learning can help us have an improved picture of the nature of second language learning. During first language learning, we learn the concepts in our interactions with the immediate environment. In second language learning, however, the relevant world knowledge is transferred from the first language and we only learn the word knowledge. Thus, in the current study, we sought to simulate first language learning and introduce the null experimental research method with its roots in the emotioncy model. This research method applies to those studies in which adult language learners deal with some concepts that they have no knowledge about and begin to learn them in the class. Reviewing the conventional research methods, we explained the null experimental research method and provided an example from an electroencephalography (EEG) experiment. The behavioral and electrophysiological results revealed that, as we have more interactions with the sensory environment, the retrieval of word knowledge and world knowledge is facilitated.

Repetition, as an effective way to learn vocabulary, has long been the subject of language instruction. However, it seems that the effective number of repetitions in language classrooms has been less considered by the linguistic research and consequently language instructors. Capitalizing on the emotioncy (emotion+ frequency) concept, this study investigates the effective number of word repetitions in class and based on a review of research in linguistic areas and cognitive psychology, it elucidates the spaced repetition method. To this end, 100 participants with intermediate proficiency level were randomly assigned to five groups (1, 2, 3, 4, and no repetition(s)). Then, 15 words about which the participants knew nothing were taught. To compare the results of the retention test of the five groups, one-way ANOVA was utilized. The findings demonstrated a significant difference in favor of the two repetitions group. Therefore, two spaced repetitions, along with the learners' emotioncy level towards the new words can play a pivotal role in vocabulary learning in language classrooms.

The significance of the five senses and the sense-induced emotions are clear to everyone. Therefore, the newly-developed concept of emotioncy which includes emotion as one of its basic components has been introduced to the field of foreign language learning. The present study attempts to investigate the effects of the emotioncy-based vocabulary instruction on the learners’ success. To this end, nine avolved vocabulary items were selected and instructed to the participants through different emotioncy kinds. Then, the participants performed a sentence comprehension task, and, based on the instruction, decided whether the sentences were correct or not. The analysis of the behavioral data revealed that employing different emotioncy levels to teach the words could lead into a significant difference among them both in terms of the response accuracy and the response time. The findings of this study can emphasize the significance of the sense-induced emotions in, among others, teaching and testing new linguistic items.

Books written about the history of Persian language appears to focus on transferring knowledge to students only. Despite the significance of students’ needs and their individual differences as well as their personality traits, books have failed to take into account these factors. Of these considerations, mentions could be made of emotions and feelings of students as they largely contribute to positive learning. Emotioncy (emotion + frequency) stresses on emotions evoked by the senses from which we receive inputs, hence learning happens. It stands on a hierarchical matrix of six levels, including Null (0), Auditory (1), Visual (2), Kinesthetic (3), Inner (4), and Arch (5) or more specifically, avolvement (null) and exvolvement (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic) to involvement (inner and arch). Drawing on the concept of emotioncy, the present study aims at analyzing and evaluating the content of books written about the history of Persian language. The corpus of the investigation consists of five academic books, namely, The History of Persian Language (by Natel-Khanlari), The History of Persian language (by Abolghasemi), The Brief History of Persian language (by Bagheri) and the History of Iranian Languages (by Rezaei Bagh Bidi). Different levels of emotioncy were examined in the above-mentioned books and the analysis was guided with Chi-squared tests. The findings suggest that there are significant differences among the books in terms of employing emotioncy; therefore, new or updated content would benefit the books. It appears that the employment of emotioncy in drafting books about the history of Persian language could facilitate learning for students as they become emotionally engaged with the teaching content, hence the learnt materials are easily transferred to permanent memory.

It has always been too arduous a task to keep track of the memory of students with Down Syndrome. However, paying attention to the strategies that can help such students with processing the given information is among the concerns intellectually disabled instructors deal with. As phonological awareness plays an important role in successful reading skills, paying attention to it in elementary education, especially among children with disabilities, is important. The present study introduces a teaching method based on the emotioncy model. Emotioncy is a psychological and integrative concept of two words (emotion and frequency) that points to the effect of emotions arising from the use of the senses in learning concepts. The concept has three levels, namely avolvement, exvolvement, and involvement that, due to the involvement of more senses in the learning process, has been suggested for teaching phonemes and vocabulary to students with Down Syndrome. To this end, 30 Down Syndrome students were chosen from primary special needs schools in 7 districts of Mashhad. The phonological awareness test was first conducted as the pretest to measure their auditory, visual, and kinesthetic skills, and their ability to identify phonological differences and similarities. Then, out of 15 words, 5 words that all students' level of knowledge about them were diagnosed with a pretest to be zero were selected. And each word was taught in 5 phases of auditory, visual, tactile-kinesthetic, internal, and comprehensive based on emotioncy levels. The phonological awareness test was conducted as the posttest. The duration of the study was 2 sessions for each student individually (60 sessions for 30 students in general) and each session lasted one hour (60 minutes) for 15 consecutive weeks. The results of t-tests showed that using the emotioncy-based teaching model accelerates information processing in their memory by reinforcing the auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic stimuli, leading to the improvement of phonological awareness skill in students with intellectual disability. On the other hand, due to the direct relationship between phonological awareness and reading skill, the results also show a significant change in their reading speed. Therefore, it seems that this model can significantly help students with intellectual disability in their learning and increasing the speed of processing the given information.

There is no doubt that reading comprehension is one of the main skills of English language that plays a significant role in learning. Foreign language reading anxiety is one of the issues that can affect the quality of reading comprehension. Researchers have identified several factors such as different writing systems, and cultural issues that may be anxiety provoking while the language learners are reading foreign language texts. Given the significant role of positive and negative emotions in the process of language learning, the language learner’s level of emotioncy regarding the content of the reading comprehension text can be considered as another factor that can cause foreign language reading anxiety. Emotioncy that consists of sense, emotion, and frequency deals with different emotions about linguistic items that language learners form due to different sensory experiences they have already had about those items. The present study tries to introduce engaging the five senses of language learners, and improving their emotioncy level for the content of reading comprehension text as possible solutions to control foreign language reading anxiety. Further studies are required to determine different types of emotioncy, and the appropriate order and combination of the five senses to control foreign language reading anxiety.

Any literary work is a suitable platform for conveying the author's inner concepts and feelings through the words available in the text. Guy de Maupassant in the story of Horla narrates the life of a man who is grappling with a crisis of alienation under the influence of the anonymous creature called Horla. Using the concepts and words intertwined with the unconscious and the repeated use of the word "Horla" and the verb "failure" in the story, the author promotes an excitement in the reader to these words, which, based on the constant action and reaction of the mind and language, makes the reader more aware of intriguing indications like the shadow of alienation on a narrator's life. What can be contemplated is the relationship of these words with the concept of alienation. The relationship that can be analyzed through the psychology of language. In the language psychology, a model called the Emotioncy Model was designed by Pishghadam et al. (2013). "Emotioncy", a combination of the two words "emotion" and "frequency," is based on the principle that the words in each text have varying amounts of emotion for different individuals, which are referred to as "Emotioncy" of the words. Emotioncy includes emotions that are formed as a result of using different senses and can make relative recognition of individuals under the influence of frequency factor. Considering the Emotioncy Model, the present study seeks to answer the following fundamental question: How does the author in the story of Horla reveal the crisis of the narrator's alienation by increasing the emotioncy level of the words "Horla" and "failure" in the reader?
The concept of alienation has an inverse relationship with freedom. In the existentialism philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, human freedom has the responsibility for everything that he is seeking. The lack of this freedom causes the alienation of individuals. In the story of Horla, the transfer of this concept (alienation) to the reader is carried out through the frequency of words Horla and failure. The narrator who considers the presence of Horla as the reason for his lack of freedom, conveys his alienation crisis to the reader by repeating the word Horla as another interpretation that his freedom prevents the freedom of the narrator and the verb failure, which is itself a kind of confession of his lack of freedom. Moreover, the author describes the presence of Horla using the senses of touch, hearing sense, and above all sense of seeing. This is while, another presence is felt with his looking in the philosophy of existentialism. Through describing his sensory experiences of Horla, the writer engages the reader's senses and raises his excitement. In this regard, the author in the story of Horla describes the narrator's fear of Horla, as well as freedom, to create an excitement of fear in the reader (due to his having responsibility to life). To do this, by proving the presence of unknown creatures in the world and the human inability in their discovery, he denies the freedom of human, and provokes the excitement of fear in the reader. Therefore, the author shows crisis of the narrator's alienation with the emotionalization of words Horla and failure. The crisis of alienation represents the truth of the existence of the author and his feelings. Hence, the author has a high to this concept. This inner emotioncy, created at the level of his involvement, shapes his world view, and it is induced to the reader in the story of Horla through the emotionalization of the mentioned words.
Many studies have been yet conducted in relation to the Emotioncy Model, but the use of this Model in literature has not been addressed in none of these studies. According to the findings of this study, it can be argued that the Emotioncy Model in the field of literature can be a suitable ground for the exploration of the feelings, inner emotions and worldview of the authors through the words and concepts used in literary

The present research attempts to present emotioncy (emotion+ frequency) as a newly developed concept in psychology, which has been employed in various fields including literature, language education, and lexicography. In this research, it is hypothetised that this concept can be employed in the realm of audiovisual translation as well. Emotioncy deals with sense-induced emotions which can affect viewers’ interpretation of the audiovisual products. It is defined as a hierarchy, ranging from exvolvement (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic) to involvement (inner and arch), to emphasize the emotions evoked by the viewers’ audio and visual senses. In fact, emotioncy deals with the ways (e.g., visually or kinesthetically) individuals experience the world, which can affect and shape their mindsets. Concerning the emotional factors, the major claim of this exploratory study is that high levels of emotioncy can lead to more reception of audiovisual products. In fact, when the users of such products have higher levels of emotioncy for specific words applied in the subtitled or dubbed versions (viewers at the higher levels of emotioncy), they will be more involved in the process of reception. In other words, in the subtitled or dubbed versions of audiovisual translation products, high-emotioncy words are preferred by the viewers, as they seem to be easier for reception on the part of the audience. In the end, emotioncy is suggested as a novel concept in audiovisual translation, which may introduce new lines of research.

  "Capital" is an important sociological concept, which shows how the objective structures of any given society (social rules, norms, roles, institutions, and cultural instruments) can influence the mental structures of individuals and their social behaviors. The most important capitals are economic, cultural, social, and natural capitals that can influence the learners’ motivation, attention, behavior, attitudes, and beliefs. Since the senses can be considered as a gateway to understanding the linguistic community and due to a close connection between them and the level of learner's emotions, the present study aimed to introduce emo-sensory capital and investigate its relationship with other forms of capitals in successful language learning. The results showed that using social, cultural, and natural capitals will increase the emo-sensory-capital in learners, which consequently leads to inter-subjectivity and facilitates learning. Therefore, instructors can use such capitals to engage the learners’ senses more deeply and increase their positive emotions, attention, and motivation. It is assumed that in this way, the content will be internalized and the learner will be more inclined to be more engaged in an active communication.

Granted that senses and emotions are key components in facilitating the process of language learning and teaching, it is essential for different models of instruction to take language learners’ emotions into account. It is in fact believed that emotions could be generated from the involvement of senses. A pertinent concept which juxtaposes senses and their resultant emotions is emotioncy. The concept of emotioncy (emotion), pioneered by Pishghadam, Tabatabaeyan, and Navari (2013), is based on the psychological findings of the Developmental Individual-Differences Relationship-based (DIR) model, suggesting that sensory emotions are the cornerstones of evolution and learning. Following the assumptions of this model, when a language learner has never heard of a concept/item, s/he has no emotions for it (Null emotioncy). When s/he hears about the concept/item, the degree of emotioncy for that word increases to the auditory level, and if s/he sees or touches that item, the emotioncy may surpasses the auditory level to the Visual and Kinesthetic levels, respectively. Direct involvement with the concept/item engenders Inner emotioncy which can be maximized by doing research (Arch emotioncy). At this stage, an accurate understanding of the subject will be formed which may lead to profound learning. Drawing upon the emotioncy model, in this study, the researchers made an attempt to teach a number of Persian language issues and, thereafter investigate the effect of this model on the emotions of the Persian language learners and their learning outcomes. To do so, 60 non-Iranian female students with the same Persian level (7th grade) from 16 different countries (including India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Egypt, Madagascar, Burundi, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Libya, Tajikistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Guinea-Bissau, Syria, and Indonesia) who were studying at Al-Mostafa International University were categorized into 4 groups of 15 and participated in classes for a period of 6 weeks. Different concepts were taught during each session according to each level of emotioncy. At the end of each session, the learners’ emotions were evaluated via the academic emotions questionnaire Pekrun, 2002) and emotioncy scale (Pishghadam, 2015). The results related to the auditory session revealed that the learners did not show very positive emotions for the relevant subject. Yet, their emotions improved in the Visual session. The change in the emotions of the learners from negative to positive was also evident in the kinesthetic session. At this stage, learners were more actively involved with the subject and gave convincing reasons for their emotional experiences. In the fifth session (Inner), having brought the necessary and relevant instruments to the class, the instructor asked the learners to simulate the instructed subject. In the final session (Arch), the learners were asked to explore the resources available (cyberspace, library, etc.) about the topics taught during the fifth session. Overall, the results indicated significant differences in the emotions of non-Iranian female students, concluding that by involving senses in the process of teaching, the learners’ emotioncy level increases and positive emotions are thus produced. As a result, there was a positive correlation between emotioncy-based instruction and the amount of positive emotions on the part of non-Iranian Persian language learners. Taken together, the emotioncy model seems to help enhance the positive emotions of Persian language learners, providing a more successful learning environment for them.

Creating and approving official Persian equivalents for the foreign words in Persian language is of great importance, which is considered to be done by the Persian Language Academy. Neologisms or newly-coined words are the inventions produced by language planners, which are supposed to replace the loan words. But these new words usually cannot have the opportunity to be entered into the active vocabularies of a significant portion of the native speakers of the Persian language. In this regard, we have proposed emotioncy as a tool for the acceptance of neologisms. Emotioncy, which is a blend of ‘emotion’ and ‘frequency’, refers to sense-induced emotions. In fact, it deals with the ways (e.g., visually or kinesthetically) individuals experience the world, which can affect and shape their mindsets. Considering this newly-developed concept of‘emotioncy” and its components (emotion, sense, and frequency), the present study intends to introduce this concept as a new tool to examine the problems of accepting neologisms. To be more specific, the present study aims to address the following research question: What strategies can be adopted by the Persian Language Academy in order to increase and decrease the emotioncy levels of words? Regarding this goal, a number of strategies were proposed in order to increase the emotioncy levels of neologisms (positivising emotions, enriching senses, and increasing frequency) and decrease the emotioncy levels of the loan words (negativizing emotions, depriving senses, and lowering frequency). It is our belief that these strategies can be implemented by the Persian Language Academy to popularize Persian neologisms. In the end, a number of implications were proposed and some suggestions were made for further studies.

Since language learners differ in terms of their preferred learning styles (auditory, visual, tactile, kinesthetic, individual, and group), they go through the learning process by relying on a specific sense. Since catering for all learning styles in a class is not feasible, a teacher should adopt a method which is of interest to all learners despite their differences in learning styles. Emotioncy is one of the approaches which attempts to improve learners’ abilities regardless of their learning styles differences through creating excitement for learning and influencing the senses. Emotioncy includes three levels of avolvement (null), exvolvement (auditory, visual, and tactile-kinesthetic), and involvement (intrinsic and comprehensive). The current study aimed to introduce emotioncy and its components (emotion, senses, and frequency) and to explore its effect on Persian language learners’ flow and learning styles. The emotioncy (Pishghadam, 2015), the perceptual learning styles (Reid, 1987), and the flow (Csikzentmihalyi, 1975) questionnaires were used to collect the data. Sixty non-Persian female students who were at the same proficiency level (level 7) and from 16 different nationalities were selected through availability sampling and assigned into four groups. The study treatment drew on emotioncy and consisted of 22 sessions which were implemented during 7 weeks. The results showed that, despite learners’ differences in terms of preferred leaning styles, emotioncy model played a mediating role between the students’ flow and their learning styles, enhanced positive emotions and learning enjoyment, and neutralized the negative effects of perceptual learning styles. Therefore, it is suggested that emotioncy based teaching approaches replace the approaches based on perceptual learning styles.

1. Introduction Teaching Persian language to non-Persian speakers has various purposes such as making them familiar with the Iranian culture and customs, establishing more interpersonal interactions, enhancing business and professional communication, and finally increasing mutual understanding between two cultures. Persian language classes and instructors play a fundamental role in satisfying the mentioned goals through modifying the learners’ attitudes. Attitude, as a set of beliefs, emotions, and behavioral intentions toward an object, a person, or an event, significantly influences the language learners’ overall success or failure. One of the factors influencing students’ attitudes is involving their senses and emotions. A pertinent concept which juxtaposes senses and their resultant emotions is emotioncy. Drawing upon the emotioncy model, in this study, the researchers made an attempt to teach Persian language cultural issues and, thereafter investigate the effect of this model on the attitudes of the Persian learners and their learning outcome.
The concept of emotioncy was first introduced by Pishghadam, Tabatabaeyan, and Navari (2013). This model is based on the psychological findings of the developmental individual- differences relationship-based (DIR) model, and it assumes that emotions are the foundation of evolution and learning (Greenspan & Weider, 1997). According to the emotioncy model of Pishghadam (2015), when a language learner has never heard of a subject, s/he has no emotion for it (null emotioncy). When s/he hears about the subject, the degree of emotioncy of that word moves from the null to the auditory level, and if he sees or even touches that item, then the emotioncy can be raised from the auditory level to the visual and kinesthetic levels, respectively. If his experiences of this subject increase, in the next steps, the inner emotioncy of the word is created, and the learner can achieve an arch emotioncy by doing research. At this stage, an accurate understanding of the subject will be formed which will lead to profound learning.
2. Methodology In the present study, the results of interviews with 60 non-Persian language learners from 16 countries (including India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Egypt, Madagascar, Burundi, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Libya, Tajikistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Guinea-Bissau, Syria, and Indonesia) who were studying at Al-Mostafa International University were analyzed. To get the most information and a deep understanding of the participant's attitude, the learners were not selected randomly, but they were all purposefully selected from a group with similar relative knowledge of Persian. All participants in the study were non-Persian and female. They were between 17 and 30 years old (M= 23.5). The level of fluency in the Persian language was the same for all of them (Book Seven). All were studying at Al-Mostafa International University, and on average, one year had passed from their presence in Iran. Semi-structured interviews were used as for the qualitative phase. Based on the cultural topic taught in each class, with "Why" and "How" questions (Dornyei, 2007) students were asked to express their feelings about the topic and then to provide more explanations about their answers in two minutes. Therefore, according to the purpose of the study, their positive or negative attitudes toward the subject taught in the class were determined, and the change in their attitudes toward learning was evaluated. Four different cultural issues which were selected are as follows: "Yazd badgir" (Yazd windproof), "Ajil-e-moshgelgosha" (problem-solving nuts), "Mirzaqasemi" (a kind of Iranian food), "Zal and Simorgh's Story". Learners did not have any information about these subjects being completely related to the Iranian's culture and customs. The subjects were taught in four classes (each class included 15 learners), by the same lecturer according to the different levels of the emotioncy model (Pishghadam, 2015) and in 6 sessions (each session lasted 50 minutes including 20 minutes of teaching and 30 minutes of interviewing ( two minutes per participant)). Subsequent to teaching each subject, an interview was conducted to determine the participant's attitudes and emotions towards learning based on the emotioncy model.
3. Discussion The results of the answers related to the auditory session showed that the learners did not have an effective relationship with the subject during this session and did not have a very positive attitude toward the subjects taught. According to the received responses, the observed results at the visual stage improved. The change in the attitude of the learners from negative to positive was also evident in the kinesthetic sessions. At this stage, since there was a more active engagement of the language learner with the subject, we also monitored a deeper attitude toward the subject, and the language learners gave convincing reasons for their responses and emotional experiences. In the fifth session (inner), having brought the necessary and relevant subjects into the class, the instructor asked the learners to simulate the subject taught. In the final session (Arch), the learners were asked to explore the resources available (cyberspace, library, etc.) about the topics taught during the fifth session (inner session).
4. Conclusion In the emotioncy model proposed by Pishghadam (2015), levels of avolvement, exvolvement (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic), and involvement (inner and arch) are considered separately based on the subjects’ emotional experiences. That is, to teach a subject and gradually increase the level of emotion of an individual, six sessions are required to allow the learner to reach the desired level. However, according to the model proposed in this study, due to the time constraints, the small number of teaching sessions for each book, and the skills mentioned therein, it was not necessary to hold separate sessions at the exvolvement stage in teaching Persian to non-Persian speakers. Because the results of the study showed that learners can reach the desired level leading to positive attitudes by participating in involvement (inner and arch) sessions. Therefore, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic sessions could be integrated into the inner session simultaneously, and during the inner session, the tools used for all auditory, visual, and kinesthetic sessions were also used. According to the mentioned model, a teacher can engage student's emotions when teaching different subjects of the Persian language, especially cultural subjects. The teacher can integrate all aforementioned sessions while stimulating visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, etc. senses. so that learners learn more effectively. In addition, recommended strategies can be useful for Persian language instructors, textbook authors, and holders of Persian language workshops to provide them with appropriate materials for teaching.