Engagement and Emotions in Language Learning

Dear Participant,

We would like to invite you to participate in a questionnaire study that is designed and carried out by researchers at the University of Graz. The purpose of the research is to better understand engagement and emotional experiences among language learners.

Taking part in the study is entirely anonymous and voluntary. The questionnaire takes about 10-15 minutes to complete. You can choose to stop at any time. All sociodemographic data is voluntary, and you cannot be identified from your responses. There are no anticipated risks in participating in this study.

The collected data will be stored safely on a computer and will be subjected to statistical analyses. We will not collect any identifying data with your questionnaire responses. Consequently, any report on this study will neither include any information that will make it possible to identify any participants personally, and any publications will include anonymized data. All or part of the content of the survey data may be used in academic papers, policy papers, conference presentations, or news/blog articles.

If you feel that the data collected in this study is misused, you have the right to contact the data protection authority (Art. 77 DSGVO, GDPR). For further information on the rights of participants, please see the relevant GDPR articles (7, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21).

Contact details:

MMag. Nadine Probst [data protection officer at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz]

Postal address:

Universität Graz

z.H. Datenschutzbeauftragte

Universitätsplatz 3

8010 Graz

Austria Phone: +43 (0)316 380 – 2139; Email: dsba@uni-graz.at

This study has been reviewed by the Ethics Committee of the University of Graz (GZ. 39/51/63 ex 2024/25).

For questions about the study, please contact:

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sarah Mercer: sarah.mercer@uni-graz.at

Dr. Gholam Hassan Khajavy: gholam.khajavy-fadafen@uni-graz.at