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Virtual Foreign Language Classrooms in Tunisia: Mapping Teaching, Learning and Technology-driven Anxiety

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Psychologia-Paedagogia
With the onset of COVID-19, the impact on education was unprecedented, leading to the rapid shift to online learning and subsequently an upsurge in research around the anxieties associated with it. This study examines the multiple faced anxieties during
Leila NAJEH
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Music listening in foreign language learning: perceptions, attitudes, and its impact on language anxiety

Frontiers in Education
The present study explored university students' perceptions and attitudes toward music listening in foreign language learning, examining its perceived supportive role in their learning process. In this study, “music listening in foreign language learning”
Hyun-Ju Kim, Hyun Ju Chong, Mihye Lee
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Measuring Language Anxiety Perceived By Spanish University Students Of English [PDF]

, 2003
Having students that perceive considerable levels of anxiety in the classroom has been regarded as an experience that is mo re likely to occur in foreign language lessons than in lessons on other subjects of the curriculum.
Ortega Cebreros, Ana María
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Predicting language learners' grades in the L1, L2, L3 and L4: the effect of some psychological and sociocognitive variables [PDF]

, 2007
This study of 89 Flemish high-school students' grades for L1 (Dutch), L2 (French), L3 (English) and L4 (German) investigates the effects of three higher-level personality dimensions (psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism), one lower-level personality ...
Argyle M., Chamorro-Premuzic T., Costa P., Costa P., Dewaele J-M., Dewaele J-M., Dewaele J-M., Dourado M. R., Dö rnyei Z., Eysenck H. J., Eysenck H. J., Eysenck H. J., Furnham A., Gardner R. C., Gleick J., Housen A., Jean-Marc Dewaele, Jessner U., Kiani G., Kinginger C., Kinginger C., Lalonde R. N., Lasagabaster D., Lasagabaster D., Lasagabaster D., Lochtman K., MacIntyre P. D., MacIntyre P. D., Marin-Marin A., Mettewie L., Naiman N., Preston D., Safont-Jordà M. P., Sternberg R. J., Swain M., Van Daele S., Willems D.   +36 more
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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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An Investigation of Foreign Language Anxiety among Sudanese EFL Students

Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, 2020
Foreign language anxiety has a debilitative and detrimental effect on the different stages of the language learning processes. The present study investigates the relationship between foreign language anxiety and students’ achievement in English, and ...
Adil Ishag, Gamar Albooni
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The link between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety, Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity and Self-rated English proficiency among Chinese learners

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
Previous research has suggested that high levels of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) have a negative effect on foreign language learning (Horwitz, 2001; Lu & Liu, 2011) while moderate levels of Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity (SLTA ...
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Tsui Shan Ip
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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Foreign Language Learners' Anxiety in Language Skills Learning: a Case Study at Universitas Kristen Indonesia [PDF]

, 2018
Anxiety has been a matter of substantial concern in foreign language (FL) learning setting for educators since it is a major obstacle learners need to overcome (Ellis, 2008; Wu, 2010).This study was aimed at finding out students' language anxiety in ...
Male, H. (Hendrikus)
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