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Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety

The Modern Language Journal, 1986
teachers of foreign languages. Many people claim to have a mental block against learning a foreign language, although these same people may be good learners in other situations, strongly motivated, and have a sincere liking for speakers of the target language. What, then, prevents them from achieving their desired goal?
ELAINE K. HORWITZ   +2 more
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Foreign Language Reading Anxiety

The Modern Language Journal, 1999
Whereas most discussions of foreign language (FL) anxiety have centered on the difficulties caused by anxiety with respect to oral performance, this article discusses the possibility of anxiety in response to foreign or second language reading. It introduces the construct of FL reading anxiety, offers a scale for its measurement, and reports on a ...
Yoshiko Saito   +2 more
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Young Children’s Foreign Language Anxiety

2021
This book presents original research on the effects of foreign language anxiety (FLA) on young language learners. It includes suggestions for alleviating FLA and encouraging foreign language enjoyment which will ultimately facilitate more effective language learning and support children’s psychosocial wellbeing.
Jieun Kiaer   +2 more
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Language Anxiety and Proficiency in a Foreign Language

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1997
Study examined the extent to which there would be differences in oral and written proficiency in a foreign language among groups of low-, average-, and high-anxious high school students. Participants were 60 girls attending a single-sex, college-preparatory high school and completing the second year of a foreign language course.
R L, Sparks   +4 more
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Foreign Language Anxiety in SLA

Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media, 2023
Foreign language anxiety is a variety of unpleasant emotional and psychological manifestations caused by many factors in foreign language learning. With the development of second language acquisition in recent years, the impact of emotional factors in education has received increasing attention.
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Foreign Language Anxiety

2013
Foreign language teaching is a field that is closely related to human psychology Recently the studies in this field have focused on the influences of affective factors on language teaching This article overviews the relevant research about the effects of anxiety one of the affective factors on language acquisition The study also investigates the ...
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Results: Foreign Language Anxiety

2010
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been defined as: “the feeling of tension and apprehension specifically associated with second language contexts, including speaking, listening, and learning” (MacIntyre and Gardner, 1994: 284).
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Foreign Language Anxiety in Teachers

JALT Journal, 2014
In the 2013 Course of Study for senior high schools, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) mandated that English should be taught, wherever possible, through the medium of English. Against this backdrop, we investigated the experiences of foreign language anxiety (FLA) among 15 Japanese teachers of English ...
Hiroshi Suzuki, Peter Roger
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