Stimulated recall interview transcripts concerning second-language speaking emotions and emotion regulation of English majors in Poland (2023)

<p><span style="color:black">The idiodynamic methodology was used to elicit the triggers of state (foreign language) anxiety and (foreign language) enjoyment fluctuations, and the strategies used by 24 participants to down- and up- regulate the emotions in second-language-English dyadic speaking. Approximately 3.5 minutes of each participant’s pre-intervention interactive role-play task performance was video-recorded. While viewing the recordings immediately post-task, participants rated their in-task emotions on a per-second basis using the idiodynamic software. Subsequently, each participant was interviewed twice: once concerning anxiety and once enjoyment. Recall was stimulated by the software-generated emotion fluctuation graphs and video recordings. Participants revealed the self-perceived factors triggering the emotion fluctuations and the exact emotion-regulation strategies they employed. Of the 24 participants, 20 were randomly placed in the experimental (</span><em style="color:black">n</em><span style="color:black">&#61;10) and control (</span><em style="color:black">n</em><span style="color:black">&#61;10) groups. Beginning one week after the initial data collection, experimental participants received 1.5 hours of emotion-regulation strategy instruction spread over three weeks. One week after this intervention, the same data collection procedure, which, however, included a task with a different topic, was used with the experimental and control participants to determine the influence of the instructional treatment on the use of emotion-regulation strategies. The transcripts have been anonymized through the use of participant pseudonyms, with phrases such as “my partner” replacing names in participants’ responses. </span></p>