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Language Anxiety

Journal of Studies in International Education, 2011
It is very common for Chinese graduate students to experience language anxiety in the U.S. higher institutions, yet the literature on this topic is limited. This research study focused on the influence of the length of stay in U.S. higher institutions, various programs, gender, and acculturation process on Chinese graduate students’ language anxiety ...
Rui Cheng, Antony Erben
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“I” Language-Induced Anxiety

Psychological Reports, 1974
Often a patient is unable to define the problems he is presently experiencing. A six-step procedure is presented which allows the therapist to obtain a clear statement of problematic behavior. The technique described makes use of a combined behavioral-gestalt approach in the gathering of diagnostic information.
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Language anxiety and language processing

EUROSLA Yearbook, 2006
This paper focuses on two studies into the effects of language anxiety on language processing. Using samples of Croatian L1 — English L2 speakers performing two picture description tasks (one in L1 and one in L2), the studies analysed their oral productions in order to identify a number of temporal and hesitation signals of planning processes.
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Language Anxiety and Proficiency in a Foreign Language

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1997
Study examined the extent to which there would be differences in oral and written proficiency in a foreign language among groups of low-, average-, and high-anxious high school students. Participants were 60 girls attending a single-sex, college-preparatory high school and completing the second year of a foreign language course.
R L, Sparks   +4 more
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Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety

The Modern Language Journal, 1986
teachers of foreign languages. Many people claim to have a mental block against learning a foreign language, although these same people may be good learners in other situations, strongly motivated, and have a sincere liking for speakers of the target language. What, then, prevents them from achieving their desired goal?
ELAINE K. HORWITZ   +2 more
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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   +2 more
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