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Dynamic properties of language anxiety [PDF]

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This article begins by examining previous empirical studies to demonstrate that language anxiety, or the negative emotional reaction learners experience when using a second language (MacIntyre & Gardner, 1999), is a dynamic individual difference learner ...
Tammy Gregersen
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Language anxiety: understanding past research and new directions with d/Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing communities [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Language anxiety occurs when people associate negative emotional responses with using, expressing, or understanding language. In this review, we summarize past language anxiety research regarding specific language processes or subtypes: reading, writing,
Christina Kim, Laurel Aichler, Tiffany Bridgett, Onudeah Nicolarakis, Shilpa Hanumantha Lacy, Rachel Sortino, Poorna Kushalnagar, Poorna Kushalnagar, Rachel Pizzie   +8 more
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Heritage language anxiety and majority language anxiety among Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands [PDF]

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2016
Aims and objectives: This study examines the language anxiety that occurs in immigrants’ daily lives when speaking the heritage language and the majority language, both in their host country and during visits to their home country. It compares the levels
Berry J. W., Fishman J., Gal S., Garcia de Blakeley M., Giles H., Holm S., Jean-Marc Dewaele, Kondo-Brown K., MacIntyre P. D., Martínez G. A., Meyerhoff M., Portes A., Schleef E., Sevinç Y., Silva-Corvalán C., Tallon M., Trudgill P., Wölck W., Yeşim Sevinç, Zentella A. C.   +19 more
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Beyond standard English: how Global Englishes enhances creativity, reduces language anxiety, and increases willingness to communicate [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
This article explores how the Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) paradigm promotes learner psychology by enhancing creativity, reducing language anxiety, and increasing willingness to communicate (WTC) in second or foreign language (L2) contexts ...
Asep Budiman, Asep Budiman, Xinyu Liu
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The Impact of Negotiated Syllabus on Foreign Language Learners' Language Anxiety and Learning Motivation [PDF]

Teaching English Language, 2022
Negotiated syllabus, as a type of learner-centered syllabus, has been found to affect language learners' language achievement. This study aimed at investigating the foreign language learners' foreign language anxiety and motivation for learning.
Ali Pakdaman, Goudarz Alibakhshi, Abdollah Baradaran   +2 more
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Mentalizing Bodies: Explicit Mentalizing Without Words in Psychotherapy

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Mentalization concerns the human ability to understand the actions of others (and oneself) in terms of intentional mental states. Theoretically, the notion has been described via the poles of automatic, non-verbal implicit mentalization as ...
Thomas Wiben Jensen, Stine Steen Høgenhaug, Morten Kjølbye, Marie Skaalum Bloch   +3 more
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Can the neuroticism-willingness to communicate relationship across languages be explained by anxiety?

Moderna Språk, 2021
This study focuses on the role of neuroticism in shaping L1 and L2 users’ communicative behaviour, as represented by the L1/L2 users’ willingness to communicate (WTC).
Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel, Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia, Katarzyna Skałacka   +2 more
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The Interrelation Between Language Anxiety and Self-Determined Motivation; A Mixed Methods Approach

Frontiers in Education, 2021
The relationship between language anxiety and self-determined motivation has been examined from various aspects in the applied linguistics domain. However, the direction of the relationship tend to disagree.
Abdullah Alamer, Abdullah Alamer, Fahad Almulhim, Fahad Almulhim   +3 more
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Gender differences in foreign language classroom anxiety: Results of a meta-analysis

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Exploring language learners’ anxiety is not a neglected area of inquiry in applied linguistics research, which can primarily be attributed to the publication of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), an influential instrument developed by ...
Katalin Piniel, Anna Zólyomi
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English Language Anxiety

International Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022
English as lingua franca has aroused the demand to include English in early childhood education curriculum, while most of the teachers experienced English Language Anxiety symptoms. In PAUD J, English material had been delivered to the students but the practice itself needs a lot of improvements.
Hanafi Hanafi, Asti Bhawika Adwitiya
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