Language Anxiety and Foreign Language Teaching [PDF]
language anxiety is a significant emotional factor that affects foreign language learners in the classroom and has been increasingly drawing attention in the academic field. Through the introduction of FLCAS in the experimental study on language anxiety, this paper analyzes foreign language learner’s communication fear, test anxiety and negative ...
Huanqi Ji, Xie Zhang
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Filipino language anxiety among science high school students [PDF]
This research centers on language anxiety, a persistent issue impeding students' ability to learn a new language. Language anxiety can cause students to feel inadequate in their language skills, experience self-doubt, and worry about what others think of
Dominic Patric G. Galdonez
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THE IMPACT OF CONTRACTING ON ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND ALLEVIATING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY: A PRELIMINARY STUDY [PDF]
Our study focused on Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) within formal university education. We questioned whether the anxiety experienced during learning a foreign language could be mitigated through the contracting method.
Nikolina Kuruzović +2 more
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Foreign language anxiety on a massive open online language course [PDF]
This paper examines learner attitudes, self-efficacy beliefs, and anxiety in a beginners’ Spanish Language Massive Open Online Course (LMOOC) by answering three research questions: (1) how do learners feel about acquiring speaking skills on an LMOOC?; (2)
Barkanyi, Zsuzsanna +1 more
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Trump-induced anxiety among Latina/os [PDF]
During the 2016 election, Donald Trump castigated unauthorized immigrants as “murderers and rapists.” During his presidency, he continued the use of this rhetoric, explicitly linking unauthorized migrants to threatening narratives.
García-Amador, JM +8 more
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Emotional health in adolescents with and without a history of specific language impairment (SLI) [PDF]
Objective: This study examined the emotional health of adolescents with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Method: One hundred and thirty-nine adolescents with a history of SLI (15;10 years) and a peer group of 124 adolescents with ...
American Psychiatric Association. +19 more
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Language Anxiety Experienced by English Department Freshmen of Wijaya Kusuma University Surabaya
This research aims to describe the language anxiety level and type frequently experienced by English Department first-year students of Wijaya Kusuma University Surabaya. It used a case study as the research design to explain the phenomenon observed.
Ribut Surjowati +2 more
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The Bold and the Beautiful: How Aspects of Personality Affect Foreign Language Pronunciation [PDF]
In the main study, a group of Polish learners of English completed a number of mimicry tasks in three languages: Italian, Dutch and Chinese, as well as a narration task in English.
Arnold +36 more
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Phonetics Learning Anxiety – Results of a Preliminary Study [PDF]
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 ...
Argamon +92 more
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Language anxiety mediates the link between Agreeableness and self-perceived foreign language skills
The influence of personality, though overt in the mother tongue, may not be easily detected in foreign language (FL) learning, due to the change of language obscuring the clarity of universally observable influences.
Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel +2 more
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