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Chengchen Li; Lawrence Jun Zhang; Guiying Jiang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The study seeks to conceptualise foreign language learning burnout and provide its corresponding measurement. The 15-item "Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey" (MBI-SS) was rephrased to fit an English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learning context. The modified MBI-SS was then assessed among 1718 Chinese secondary EFL students. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Irene Acosta-Manzano; Elvira Barrios; Jorge García-Mata – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE), Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA), Out-of-Class Foreign Language Use (OCFLU) and learner factors (FL and FL proficiency level). Participants were 611 foreign language (FL) learners aged 16-72 at Spanish Official Language Schools. An online questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Likert Scales
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Rezazadeh, Mohsen; Zarrinabadi, Nourollah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between need for closure and need for cognition and foreign language anxiety and enjoyment. The participants of the study were 232 EFL learners at a university in Iran. Self-report questionnaires on need for closure, need for cognition, foreign language classroom anxiety and foreign language enjoyment were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Cognitive Processes
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Thompson, Amy S.; Khawaja, Anastasia J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
As part of a larger study on individual differences and language learning in Turkey, this study explores the relationship between foreign language anxiety and two operationalisations of multilingualism: any experience with a third language and Perceived Positive Language Interaction; it also illuminates connections among the aforementioned…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Profiles
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Phongsa, Manivone; Mohamed Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik; Low, Hui Min – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Foreign language anxiety is common among adult learners, especially those who lack exposure to the language that they are learning. In this study, we compared the foreign language anxiety experienced by monolingual and bilingual tertiary students in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) who were learning English as a Foreign Language. The…
Descriptors: Laotians, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Lee, Jang Ho – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
The present study was designed to examine the effects of short-term study abroad (SA) on learners' L2 anxiety, international posture, and L2 willingness to communicate (WTC). To this end, the SA experience of 69 L2 learners in four different SA programmes was investigated. The data were obtained from participant questionnaires, which were…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Trang, Tran Thi Thu; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Moni, Karen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been found to exist in tertiary students learning foreign languages in many countries; however, limited research has explored how it develops. This study investigated how anxiety developed in students of English as a foreign language (EFL), focusing on changes in their feelings about EFL learning as they learned,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Measures (Individuals), Second Language Instruction