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Liu, Hui-ju; Chen, Chien-wei – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aimed to investigate EFL learner language anxiety and learning motivation of high school students. Subjects included 155 students from the same private senior high school in central Taiwan, 60 in academic track and 95 in vocational track. The majority of the participants started taking English lessons either before entering elementary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Vocational Education, Track System (Education)
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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
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Wei, Ming – TESL-EJ, 2007
This study examines the motivational pattern in relation to the anxiety of Chinese learners of English. Based on a survey consisting of an anxiety questionnaire and a motivation questionnaire, the findings revealed an unbalanced pattern of two types of motivation clusters that resembled the integrative-instrumental duality, with the level of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation