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The fear factor: Xenoglossophobia or how to overcome the anxiety of speaking foreign languages [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2020 The article approaches a ubiquitous as well as a rarely adequately addressed problem area of learning and teaching foreign languages. It concentrates on xenoglossophobia, the fear of speaking foreign languages.
Heiner Böttger, Deborah Költzsch
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Willingness to Communicate and Its Influencing Factors among Indonesian Pre-Service Teachers
Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2021 Willingness to communicate (WTC) can be defined as the readiness of a language learner to enter communication situation. This study aims to identify factors affecting pre-service teachers’ WTC and to explore their perspective on the importance of WTC in ...
Indry Widyasti Anwar +3 more
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Interpreting unwillingness to speak L2 English by Japanese EFL learners
Open Linguistics, 2023 This article reports on an empirical study investigating what makes Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) unwilling to speak English, regardless of their learning period, proficiency level, and location of the communication.
Muroya Akiko
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Integrative motivation and global language (English) acquisition in Poland
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012 This study investigated the consistency of a measure of integrative motivation in the prediction of achievement in English as a foreign language in 18 samples of Polish school students.
Robert C. Gardner
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Heritage speakers of Russian : intersectionality, identity, and language learning anxiety [PDF]
, 2019 This work discusses the notable contributions from the related fields of foreign language anxiety, heritage language learning, Russian heritage language, and heritage language anxiety studies in order to suggest manners of constructing a more complete ...
Barrientos, Guadalupe Del Rosario
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Anxiety over EFL speaking and writing: A view from language classrooms [PDF]
, 2011 The assumption that foreign language learners experience a high level of anxiety mainly when faced with speaking activities implies that research should focus on those learners prone to anxiety over that skill.
Gkonou, Christina
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Frontiers in PsychologyThis study investigates how three individual differences (language anxiety, Expectancy–Value Motivation, and social identity) predict academic performance in Spanish as a foreign language among a sample of 317 Chinese undergraduate students majoring in ...
Qi Lu, Eulalio Fernández Sánchez
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Reducing Students' Foreign Language Anxiety in Speaking Class Through Cooperative Learning [PDF]
, 2018 One of the challenges in teaching English as a foreign language to students in Indonesia is the existence of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) that are faced by students at any level of education.
Susidamaiyanti, S. (Susidamaiyanti)
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What Twitter Profile and Posted Images Reveal About Depression and Anxiety
, 2019 Previous work has found strong links between the choice of social media images and users' emotions, demographics and personality traits. In this study, we examine which attributes of profile and posted images are associated with depression and anxiety of
Eichstaedt, Johannes C. +3 more
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY IN STUDENT LEARNING
Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences, 2016 Background. Anxiety includes uncomfortable feelings when learning or using the new language. It continues to exist in the university foreign language classroom as well. A number of foreign language students report feeling anxious about language learning.
Lileikienė, Asta, Danilevičienė, Lina
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