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Foreign language learning increasingly requires learners to navigate uncertainty, emotional challenges, and complex communicative situations. This presentation examines emotional intelligence and ambiguity tolerance as future-oriented competences that support successful language learning in contemporary educational contexts. Emotional intelligence enables learners to recognize, understand, and regulate emotions that may emerge during the learning process, such as anxiety, frustration, or lack of confidence. Ambiguity tolerance, in turn, helps learners cope with unclear meanings, unfamiliar linguistic structures, and unpredictable communicative situations without losing motivation or withdrawing from interaction.
The presentation argues that these two competences play an important role in developing learner autonomy, engagement, and cognitive resilience. In foreign language learning, the ability to manage emotions and accept uncertainty can strengthen learners’ willingness to communicate, persistence, and openness to new experiences. These qualities are especially relevant in future-oriented and digitally mediated learning environments, where learners are expected to adapt, make decisions, and take responsibility for their own progress.
By focusing on emotional and cognitive adaptability, the topic highlights the need to view foreign language learning not only as linguistic development but also as preparation for lifelong learning and flexible participation in a changing world.
| Presenting author | Kamila Styś |
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