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Language, Discourse and Anxiety

2023
Why is language so important to the ways that we make sense of anxiety? This book uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to examine twenty-three million words of text posted to a forum for people with anxiety. It shows how linguistic techniques like catastrophisation and anthropomorphisation can result in very different conceptualisations of anxiety ...
Luke Collins, Paul Baker
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Foreign Language Reading Anxiety

The Modern Language Journal, 1999
Whereas most discussions of foreign language (FL) anxiety have centered on the difficulties caused by anxiety with respect to oral performance, this article discusses the possibility of anxiety in response to foreign or second language reading. It introduces the construct of FL reading anxiety, offers a scale for its measurement, and reports on a ...
Yoshiko Saito, Thomas J. Garza, Elaine K. Horwitz   +2 more
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Language Anxiety

2009
Abstract This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our linguistic and social behavior and suggests that anxiety about ...
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Language anxiety and achievement

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2001
This chapter considers the literature on language learning anxiety in an effort to clarify the relationship between anxiety and second language learning. It will first argue that language anxiety is a specific anxiety — rather than a trait anxiety — and discuss how this conceptualization has helped clarify the research literature.
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Beyond Language AnxietyBeyond Language Anxiety

Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia, 2004
The article focuses on the relationship of language anxiety and a number of other individual difference variables. In order to understand the role of language anxiety in second language acquisition and behaviour, the author describes a study in which she tried to check the validity of five hypotheses based on findings of previous studies.
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Second Language Anxiety

This book brings together three decades of research to show that L1 skills and L2 aptitude are confounding variables in studies of language anxiety and that learners’ levels of anxiety for L2 learning are strongly related to their levels of language achievement. It holds the potential to change the ways in which we think about language anxiety.
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Is the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale Measuring Anxiety or Language Skills?

Foreign Language Annals, 2007
Fifty‐four students were followed over 10 years and tested with native language measures in first through fifth grades and measures of foreign language aptitude and foreign language proficiency in high school. All students had completed two years of Spanish, French, or German. Students were divided into three groups based on their scores on the Foreign
Richard L. Sparks, Leonore Ganschow
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Foreign Language Anxiety

2013
Foreign language teaching is a field that is closely related to human psychology Recently the studies in this field have focused on the influences of affective factors on language teaching This article overviews the relevant research about the effects of anxiety one of the affective factors on language acquisition The study also investigates the ...
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High Anxiety, Becalmed Language

2019
Abstract Chapter 8 looks at ‘linguistic philosophy’ in middle and late Wittgenstein and in J. L. Austin. In ordinary language philosophy, myth emerged not from charismatic demagogues but from the fervid minds of scientistic intellectuals.
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Foreign Language Anxiety

2016
Anxiety is a frequent psycho-emotional condition associated with learning a foreign language, which shapes the students’ experience in the classroom and at home. Educators should be trained to recognize this type of – sometimes debilitating – anxiety and address it effectively through specific pedagogical strategies. Students' goal is not to get rid of
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