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Gender differences in the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale

System, 2013
Abstract This study examined gender differences in language anxiety and a possible influence of gender and anxiety on L2 performance. Anxiety was measured by the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and L2 performance was determined by the final grade of 948 university students learning English in Korea.
Brian French
exaly   +2 more sources

Factor Structure of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale

Psychological Reports, 2016
By employing both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, Park has provided an important contribution to understanding the underlying constructs of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale. To Park’s concerns about previous research on the components of the measure, this article adds the necessity of considering the specific learner ...
Elaine K Horwitz
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Is the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale Measuring Anxiety or Language Skills?

Foreign Language Annals, 2007
Fifty‐four students were followed over 10 years and tested with native language measures in first through fifth grades and measures of foreign language aptitude and foreign language proficiency in high school. All students had completed two years of Spanish, French, or German. Students were divided into three groups based on their scores on the Foreign
Richard Sparks
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Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis

International Journal of Behavioral Development
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) has been used as an influential instrument to measure foreign language anxiety (FLA) in classrooms for various research purposes worldwide for four decades. This instrument has been the focus of many studies; however, there seems to be a gap in the literature regarding its reliability generalization (RG).
Erkan Aydin, Erkan Yüce, Kamil Buḡra Arat   +2 more
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Validating the Chinese version of short‐form foreign language classroom anxiety scale

Psychology in the Schools
AbstractThis three‐phase study utilized item response theory (IRT) and both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA and CFA) approaches to validate the short‐form foreign language classroom anxiety scale (S‐FLCAS) for measuring Chinese college students' foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA).
Jinyan Huang
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Relationship of L1 Skills and L2 Aptitude to L2 Anxiety on the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale

Language Learning, 2013
The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) has been challenged on the grounds that it may also assess language learning skills. In this study, 128 students who had been administered measures of first language (L1) skills in elementary school were followed from 1st to 10th grade.
Richard L. Sparks, Jon Patton
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Factor Analysis of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale in Korean Learners of English as a Foreign Language

Psychological Reports, 2014
This study examined the latent constructs of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) using two different groups of Korean English as a foreign language (EFL) university students. Maximum likelihood exploratory factor analysis with direct oblimin rotation was performed among the first group of 217 participants and produced two meaningful ...
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Differential Item Functioning Analysis of Persian Adaptation of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale Against Gender

Human Arenas, 2021
The data analyzed via scales in humanities might be misinterpreted due to the possible bias of these scales against gender. With this in mind, in this study, we examined differential item functioning of the Persian adaptation of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety scale containing 26 items across gender.
Khatereh Saghafi, Seyed Mohammad Reza Amirian, Majid Elahi Shirvan   +2 more
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Investigating the Underlying Constructs of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale

2020
Yabancı dil kaygısı, dil öğrenme sürecini etkileyen bireysel faktörlerden biri olarak uzun yıllardır araştırmalara konu olmaktadır. Çalışmada, Yabancı Dil Kaygısı Ölçeği’nin faktör yapısının Türkiye bağlamında incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 2017-2018 eğitim-öğretim yılı bahar döneminde Marmara Bölgesindeki bir üniversitenin ...
ORUÇ, Eylem, DEMİRCİ, Cavide
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Validating the short-form of foreign language classroom burnout, boredom and anxiety scales in online Chinese learning

System
Haijing Zhang, Fangwei Huang
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