The rapid changes of globalization affect every aspect of human life including education. Incorporation of life matters in the schools’ curricula has been one of the considerations to enable learners to deal with unforeseen life challenges of this era. Due to the unique nature of English language classes, they have been regarded as sites which boost life skills in learners. As a complementary view, in the current study we suggest the psychological concept of sensory emotioncy (emotion + frequency) as an element which may facilitate the process of language learning by linking learners’ life in general and sensory experiences in particular to language. To this end, we extended the recently proposed model of emotioncy in such a way to elucidate its life dimension. We explained that during the early exposures (exvolvement) learners deal with forms and functions of a language. Later, while fully involved they come to applection and appropriation (involvement) which reflect the manifestations of a real life. In fact, we introduced the term applection (application + reflection) to jointly stress synthesis, analysis, and evaluation as the fundamental necessities of today’s life. In the end, we came up with two practical examples to draw a picture of its application in the field of English language education.

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