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Foreign Language Listening Anxiety: A Self-Presentational View

International Journal of Listening, 2016
This study used a self-presentational framework to investigate second language listening anxiety among university students and demonstrated that second language listening involves social concerns that are specific to second language settings. A set of anxiety questionnaires was administered to 1,177 students, and 17 learners provided verbal protocol ...
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L2 anxiety and the foreign language reading anxiety scale: Listening to the evidence

Foreign Language Annals, 2018
Second language (L2) educators have proposed a unique anxiety for general L2 learning and an anxiety specific to L2 reading. Since the early 1990s, the L2 anxiety concept has been challenged on theoretical and empirical grounds. In this investigation, U.S.
Richard L. Sparks, Jon Patton, Julie Luebbers   +2 more
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Sources of Listening Anxiety in Learning English as a Foreign Language

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2008
In this study of college students' listening anxiety in learning English in a classroom context, participants were 160 students (47 men and 113 women) ages 18 to 19 years. To address their listening anxiety, participants were chosen from students enrolling in a required listening course.
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Review for "Easing down foreign language listening anxiety: Metacognitive intervention and dialogic interaction"

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Effects of Computer-Based Immediate Feedback on Foreign Language Listening Comprehension and Test-Associated Anxiety

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2012
This study investigated the effects of immediate feedback on computer-based foreign language listening comprehension tests and on intrapersonal test-associated anxiety in 72 English major college students at a Taiwanese University. Foreign language listening comprehension of computer-based tests designed by MOODLE,3 a dynamic e-learning environment ...
Shu-Ping, Lee, Hui-Kai, Su, Shin-Da, Lee
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Foreign Language Pronunciation and Listening Anxiety: A Preliminary Study

2013
Numerous studies conducted throughout several decades on language anxiety have proven its detrimental effect on foreign language (FL) and second language (L2) learning and performance. One of the skills, along with speaking, that has been found “highly anxiety provoking” (Krashen, cf. Young 1992) is listening.
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Second-Language Listening Anxiety before and after a 1-Yr. Intervention in Extensive Listening Compared with Standard Foreign Language Instruction

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2010
Many studies have shown that language anxiety is correlated negatively with language competence. This study tests the hypothesis that second language learners' listening anxiety might be reduced when listening skills improve. Building on previous research showing that extensive reading is as effective and efficient as formal instruction in acquiring ...
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Anxiety in reading and listening English as a foreign language in Chinese undergraduate students

Language Teaching Research, 2017
This study tested relationships between foreign language (FL) reading and listening anxiety and learner variables in English as a foreign language (EFL). It tested links between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and its cognitive, affective and behavioral correlates in English (i.e.
Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow, Hey Tou Chiu, Simpson W. L. Wong   +2 more
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Effects of flipped listening classroom on undergraduate students’ foreign language listening anxiety and willingness to communicate

E-Learning and Digital Media
In a traditional classroom environment, listening comprehension plays a vital role in enabling students to actively participate in the learning process. This is because a significant portion of information is conveyed through the instructor’s explanations and class discussions.
Saeideh Bolandifar, Nafiseh Salehi
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Effects of Former Experience, Self-study & Listening Comprehension Training on Foreign Language Listening Anxiety: The Case of EFL Teacher Candidates

International Journal of Listening, 2020
This study investigated the relation between students’ Foreign Language Listening Anxiety (FLLA) and their former listening comprehension training and self-study, whether FLLA decreases after liste...
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