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Gestione di ansia e gioia nell’apprendimento della lingua straniera: una questione di genere?

Romanica Cracoviensia
Learning foreign languages evokes contrasting emotions: anxiety (Foreign Language Anxiety, FLA) and enjoyment (Foreign Language Enjoyment, FLE), influencing students’ educational experiences.
Valentina Elmetti Taşkavak
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THE EXPLORATION OF FACTORS TRIGGERING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY: LEARNERS' VOICE

TEFLIN Journal, 2008
This article presents the findings of a study looking at the factors which learners believe have contributed to their anxiety in their foreign language learning. A questionnaire with a three-point Likert scale was developed and used as the means for data
Andi Marwan
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Implementing Argument‐Based Validity in Second Language Research on Individual Differences

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Quantitative meta‐syntheses focusing on the psychometric properties of measurement tools in second and foreign language (L2) individual differences (ID) research have drawn scholars' attention to the quality of data collection instruments (Plonsky & Derrick, 2016; Sudina, 2023).
Katalin Piniel, Ekaterina Sudina
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Interactions between age to start learning English, high school, and language proficiency on EFL graduate students' anxiety

Acta Psychologica
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been studied in relation to extra-lingual factors. However, little attention has been focused on some modulatory factors such as age to start learning a foreign language (ASLFL), high school (HS), and language ...
Mailing Tang, Hongli Zhou
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Learning Anxiety in the Language Classroom

Glottodidactica, 2006
It has generally been acknowledged that anxiety is an affective factor that plays a significant role in any learning. A highly specific type of anxiety, foreign language classroom learning anxiety, has been distinguished and recognised as quite common ...
Jerzy Zybert
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Success in learning English as a foreign language as a predictor of computer anxiety

Procedia Computer Science, 2011
AbstractThis study investigated the relationship between success in English as a foreign language and the degree of computer anxiety, frequency of computer use, and computer ownership among Iranian high-school students. Eight hundred and nineteen highschool students were selected from eight cities across the country.
Mehrak Rahimi, Samaneh Yadollahi
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Effects of Motivational Interventions on EFL Learners' Learning Effort and Achievement: An L2 Motivational Self System Perspective

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in the L2 motivational self system theory, this quasi‐experimental study investigated the impact of three motivational interventions on two outcome measures: L2 learning effort and L2 achievement. A total of 391 Chinese junior secondary students were assigned to four conditions: a control group receiving no motivational instruction ...
Xuejun Ye, Guangwei Hu
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign language anxiety in English language learning

, 2020
Bu çalışma, yabancı dil kaygısı sorununu hem yabancı dil öğrencilerinin hem de öğretmenlerinin bakış açısından inceleyerek literatüre katkı sağlar. Bu çalışma aynı zamanda hazırlık okulu öğrencilerinin İngilizce derslerindeki yabancı dil kaygılarının sebeplerini ortaya çıkarmayı ve hazırlık okulu öğrencilerinin yabancı dil kaygısını azaltmanın veya bu ...
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Language Teacher Educator Identity, Wellbeing and Agency Nested in a Community of Practice: A Collaborative Autoethnography

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
In this collaborative autoethnography, we, as three university‐based language teacher educators in Türkiye, explore how our community of practice (CoP) acted as a catalyst in navigating our identity tensions, boosting our wellbeing and contributing to our agency.
Yasemin Tezgiden‐Cakcak, Aycan Demir‐Ayaz, Işıl Günseli Kaçar   +2 more
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The Longitudinal Relationship Between Language Learning Enjoyment and Out‐of‐Class Exposure: A Random‐Intercept Cross‐Lagged Panel Analysis of Junior Secondary School English Learners

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Foreign language (FL) enjoyment and out‐of‐class FL learning have garnered much attention from both researchers and frontline educators in recent years. The current study set out to contribute to these two burgeoning areas by examining specifically the longitudinal relationships between two types of FL enjoyment (classroom private and out‐of ...
Art Tsang, Kam Tai Tony Kwan
wiley   +1 more source