Foreign Language Enjoyment and Boredom of Non-English Majors in the EFL Classroom

This article aims to investigate two emotions, which are foreign language enjoyment and foreign language boredom of non-English majors in Chinese private colleges. FLES and FLBS, the two most commonly used instrument were used as items in the questionnaire. The data showed that teacher-related boredom could most determine learner s enjoyment in EFL classes though this kind of boredom scored the lowest of the seven dimensions of foreign language boredom.