Concept
Emotional Engagement
3 studies
Emotional engagement is the affective side of involvement: interest, enjoyment, belonging, and interpersonal closeness in learning. It often moves differently from behavioral or cognitive engagement when modality or tools change.
If you only track clicks, you miss when students feel connected or alienated. These studies show emotional engagement responding to multimodal CMC, relationships in MIM, and tool preference.
Studies
3
Findings
3
3 supporting · 0 challenging · 0 qualifying citations
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What we know
- Multimodal CMC can boost emotional and social engagement even when text-based CMC better supports autonomy and behavioral/cognitive engagement.
- Mobile instant messaging can strengthen interpersonal relationships alongside interaction, tying affective closeness to participation structures.
- Emotional engagement can be the strongest predictor among engagement facets for educational-technology engagement in an EFL technology-tool comparison.
Common misconceptions
Raising behavioral engagement automatically raises emotional engagement.
Modality trade-offs appear: designs that boost behavioral/cognitive engagement can leave emotional engagement relatively lower, and vice versa.
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What the evidence shows
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Multimodal CMC can boost emotional and social engagement even when text-based CMC better supports autonomy and behavioral/cognitive engagement.
Mobile instant messaging can strengthen interpersonal relationships alongside interaction, tying affective closeness to participation structures.
Emotional engagement can be the strongest predictor among engagement facets for educational-technology engagement in an EFL technology-tool comparison.
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2026
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Emotional Engagement
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Papers
3 studies in this library bear on Emotional Engagement, ordered by citations.
- LMS vs social networks and EFL engagement
Among Beijing university EFL students, engagement dimensions predicted educational-technology engagement, and LMS users reported higher engagement means than social-networking-system users.
- Mobile messaging can deepen course discussion engagement
Compared with forum-style discussion, WeChat-based mobile instant messaging better supported interaction, relationships, and higher-level cognitive engagement in optional tasks.
- Text or multimodal CMC: which engages EFL writers?
Text-based CMC boosted autonomy and cognitive/behavioral engagement, while multimodal CMC boosted emotional and social engagement.
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Describe a modality trade-off between emotional and behavioral engagement.
In one CMC comparison, text-based modes favored autonomy and behavioral/cognitive engagement while multimodal modes favored emotional and social engagement.
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