Classroom anxiety and enjoyment in CLIL and non-CLIL: Does the target language matter? [PDF]
This study investigates pupils’ anxiety and enjoyment in the classroom when learning a second or foreign language. The particularity of this study lies in the comparison of two target languages (English and Dutch) in two educational contexts (CLIL and ...
De Smet, Audrey +4 more
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Teaching Anxiety in Foreign Language Classroom: A Review of Literature
Foreign language teaching anxiety is a complex phenomenon recently receiving increasing attention. Negative emotions, such as anxiety, may significantly impact a teacher’s professional practices, identity, and student’s ability to learn a foreign language.
Arab World English Journal +2 more
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Rasch Measurement in Language Research: Creating the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Inventory
The purpose of this study was to construct a new scale for measuring foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA). It begun with the creation of an extended item pool generated by qualitative methods.
Miranda J. Walker, Panayiotis Panayides
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Foreign Language Anxiety and Student Interpreters’ Learning Outcomes: Implications for the Theory and Measurement of Interpretation Learning Anxiety [PDF]
Although anxiety has been documented as an important variable in both interpretation performance and second language acquisition, there has been virtually no research on the interconnections between the anxiety reactions induced by these ...
Chiang, Yung-Nan
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The Effects of Asynchronous Computer Voice Conferencing on L2 Learners' Speaking Anxiety [PDF]
This study investigated the influence of a computer voice conferencing environment (Wimba) on learners’ anxiety when speaking in a foreign language. Several instruments were used for data collection: A demographic survey, the Computer Anxiety Index (CAIN)
Poza, María Isabel Charle
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Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a foreign language is linked to a range of negative and positive emotions. The present study investigated whether language enjoyment and anxiety are potential predictors of WTC.
José Jesús Vargas +1 more
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Heritage language anxiety and majority language anxiety among Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands [PDF]
Aims and objectives: This study examines the language anxiety that occurs in immigrants’ daily lives when speaking the heritage language and the majority language, both in their host country and during visits to their home country. It compares the levels
Berry J. W. +19 more
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Relationship between EFL Learners’ Perceived Social Self-Efficacy and their Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety [PDF]
The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the perceived social self-efficacy of the students of English and their foreign language classroom anxiety.
Hadi Farjami, Mohammad Amirian
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Foreign language enjoyment and foreign language classroom anxiety among Chinese learners of German
This study examines both the foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and the foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) of 201 Chinese university students of non-German majors who were learning the German language. A questionnaire based on the FLE scale and the FLCA scale was employed to examine the participants’ classroom emotions as well as other learner ...
Chen, Yu, Chen, Chuchu, Liu, Siqi
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Language anxiety becomes an important area on language teaching and learning. It has been a common issue in the EFL context and had a profound consequence in language teaching. Furthermore, a feeling of anxiety has been experienced by a number of foreign
Fitriah Fitriah, Hayatul Muna
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