Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning?

ABSTRACT: Emotions exist widely in the entire process of learning and affect students' motivation as well as academic performance. In multimedia learning, academics usually focus on the impact of teachers' emotions or the emotional design of multimedia learning materials on students' emotions and learning results. Few studies have investigated how to enhance learning by regulating students' pre-learning emotions. This study focused on whether playing funny videos before learning could promote students' positive emotions to enhance their motivation, satisfaction, and learning outcomes. We randomly divided 81 elementary school students into two groups: experimental group and control group. While the experimental group watched funny video clips, the control group watched neutral video clips before star

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9030648 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature