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Intelligent Personal Assistant - an interlocutor to mollify Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety

Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Speaking in a second/foreign language, especially in English, is one of the most anxiety-provoking tasks for language learners. Anxiety provoked while speaking in a second language distresses the learners and further affects their oral proficiency in ...
Abdur Rahman, Prajeesh Tomy
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Effects of technology-enhanced language learning on reducing EFL learners’ public speaking anxiety

Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Public speaking is considered the most anxiety-provoking speaking activity for English as a foreign language (EFL) learner. While traditional lecture-based classrooms hinder EFL learners’ constant practice and frequent interaction due to large class ...
Yi-Chen Chen
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Effects of artificial intelligence on English speaking anxiety and speaking performance: A case study

Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng., 2021
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been a perennial concern in language learning, as foreign language (FL) learners often communicate feelings of anxiety, stress, or nervousness.
R. E. Shazly
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Exploring Individual Differences of Public Speaking Anxiety in Real-Life and Virtual Presentations

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2022
Public speaking is a vital skill for making good impressions, effectively exchanging ideas, and influencing others. Yet, public speaking anxiety (PSA) ranks as a top social phobia.
Megha Yadav   +5 more
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Mindsets as sources of L2 speaking anxiety and self-confidence: the case of international teaching assistants in the U.S.

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Second language (L2) researchers have often studied how L2 speaking anxiety and self-confidence influence various aspects of the language learning process whereas the sources of these emotions have remained under-explored.
E. Ozdemir, Mostafa Papi
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To praise or not to praise? Examining the effects of ability vs. effort praise on speaking anxiety and willingness to communicate in EFL classrooms

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This study examined the effects of praise for intelligence and praise for effort on Iranian EFL learners’ language mindsets, perceived communication competence, speaking anxiety, and willingness to communicate (WTC). The students in three English classes
Nourollah Zarrinabadi   +2 more
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Self-assessment first or peer-assessment first: effects of video-based formative practice on learners’ English public speaking anxiety and performance

Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Although formative assessment has been recognized as an effective way for improving learning, scant attention has been paid to the specific design on the sequence of applying formative assessment practice in computer-assisted language learning (CALL ...
Chunping Zheng, Lili Wang, C. Chai
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