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Second language listening comprehension: The role of anxiety and enjoyment in listening metacognitive awareness

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Emotion in second language acquisition (SLA) has recently received greater attention because it is largely implicated in daily conversations, which may affect second or foreign language (L2) use including listening comprehension.
Lanxi Wang , Peter MacIntyre
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The Effect of Listening Strategy Instruction on Second Language Listening Anxiety and Self-Efficacy of Iranian EFL Learners

SAGE Open, 2020
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of listening strategy instruction on second language (L2) listening comprehension ability, listening anxiety, and listening self-efficacy of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL ...
Jalil Fathi, Ali Derakhshan, Saeede Torabi   +2 more
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Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Factors Affecting Listening Performance of Chinese EFL Learners [PDF]

The Journal of AsiaTEFL, 2019
Foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA), which consists of various factors influencing listening performance, has been extensively investigated in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts. However, little attention has been given to the effects of FLLA factors in different listening proficiency levels.
Shu-Yan Wang, Kyung-Whan Cha
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Students Know Best: Modeling the Influence of Self-Reported Proficiency, TOEIC Scores, Gender, and Study Experience on Foreign Language Anxiety

SAGE Open, 2023
Understanding how second language proficiency and other key learner characteristics relate to language learning anxiety subcomponents can help inform the type and quantity of content instructors approach foreign language (FL) students with when teaching ...
Norah Almusharraf, Daniel R. Bailey
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The Effect of Pranayamic Breathing as a Positive Psychology Exercise on Foreign Language Learning Anxiety and Test Anxiety Among Language Learners at Tertiary Level

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study investigated the impact of pranayamic breathing (PB) as a positive psychology exercise on mitigating foreign language anxiety (FLLA) and test anxiety (TA) of undergraduate English students studying at a Turkish university.
Murselin Tasan, Enisa Mede, Karim Sadeghi   +2 more
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Foreign language listening anxiety among Turkish EFL learners

Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 2018
Among the skills, listening has a remarkable effect on learning a foreign language , and i t is a keys tone for communica tion.Foreign language anxiety is an internal factor, whi ch has several effects on lea rners ’ performance during the lea rning process. There are various types of FLA and lis tening anxiety is one of them. The aim of this resea rch
Rabia Börekci, Fatih Yavuz
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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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The Relationship between University Students’ Foreign Language Learning Motivation and Anxiety

e-Kafkas Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
Generally, when motivation is high, the anxiety of a person is reduced and success is increasing. One of the subjects related to learning in general, and language learning in particular, is related to "anxiety".
Ahmet Buğra İnalöz, Semih Babatürk, Kürşad Yılmaz   +2 more
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Phonetics Learning Anxiety – Results of a Preliminary Study [PDF]

, 2013
The Phonetics Learning Anxiety Scale, a 44-item questionnaire based on a 6-point Likert scale, designed for the purpose of the research sheds light on the nature of this peculiar type of apprehension experienced by advanced FL learners in a specific ...
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Exploring the association among working memory, anxiety and Iranian EFL learners’ listening comprehension

Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
This study was intended to investigate the relationship between working memory, anxiety and Iranian EFL learners’ listening comprehension. For the purpose of this study, 60 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners were selected among 80 students at a ...
Ehsan Namaziandost, Mitra Hafezian, Sajad Shafiee   +2 more
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