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Obsa Kebede Wakuma – Discover Education, 2025
The aim of this study was to explore the connection between students' anxiety levels during language classes and their performance on English achievement exams. A random sampling method was employed to select participants. Students' levels of foreign language classroom anxiety were measured using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale, a…
Descriptors: Anxiety, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Mauricio Véliz-Campos; Carola Villegas; Leonardo Veliz – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) is a distinct form of anxiety that plays a significant role in the process of acquiring a foreign language. This study aimed to assess the anxiety levels of Chilean undergraduate learners and investigate the potential correlations between foreign language anxiety and oral performance in two distinct learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Yetkin, Ramazan; Özer, Zekiye – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2022
Individual differences in language learning have been under close scrutiny for several decades. However, there seems to be research ground to be filled in with new research to understand how and to what extent these differences relate to/effect language learning process. Both foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and second language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Secondary School Students
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Abdur Rahman; Prajeesh Tomy – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
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 English. This article focuses on investigating the presence of anxiety among (n = 86) first-year…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
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Anna Stepanovna Borisova; Svetlana Alekseevna Moskvitcheva; Oksana Ivanovna Aleksandrova; Muhammad Arif Soomro – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Foreign language anxiety (FLA), whose impact is often negative on learners' cognitive processing, happens when a learner pursues a foreign language as a non-native speaker. This study aimed to investigate anxiety in learning English as a foreign language and its influence on learners' cognitive processes. The sample comprised graduate and…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety, Measures (Individuals)
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Barber, Jared David – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
The learning of a second language is distinct from other types of learning, and involves a complex interplay of cognitive, affective, motivational, and emotional factors. Two important factors are language mindsets, the beliefs that learners hold regarding their language learning ability, and foreign language anxiety, the language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Correlation
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Tongyu Wu – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Many previous studies have identified "foreign language anxiety" and "motivation" as two important areas of applied linguistics. This study aims to evaluate the pertinent literature with also providing new information and justifications in past studies on learning anxiety and motivation. In this paper, the first section…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Hsiao, Tsung-Yuan; Tseng, Wen-Ta – SAGE Open, 2022
Researchers have agreed that language anxiety is situation-specific; however, whether existing instruments measure stable or transient components of this anxiety remains controversial. Therefore, this study examined language anxiety's trait stability and state variability. The results from synthesizing 21 test-retest correlations based on existing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
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Katalin Fenyvesi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study explores what young Danish learners found anxiety-provoking or difficult in their English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. Participants (n = 32) were early and later starters (ages 8 years vs. 10 years) at two primary schools where children were not assessed in English. The qualitative inquiry aimed to examine what differences…
Descriptors: Grade 9, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ebadijalal, Marjan; Yousofi, Nouroddin – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has extensively been reported to interfere with second language learning and performance. To mitigate anxiety, researchers have called for the inclusion of technology into foreign language classes and providing learners with corrective feedback on their performance. One factor that may affect the comprehensibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Speech Communication, Anxiety
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Hamada, Akira; Takaki, Shuichi – Language Teaching, 2021
This paper reports an approximate replication of Matsuda and Gobel (2004) for the psychometric validation of the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS). Their study examined the structural aspects of the FLRAS developed by Saito, Horwitz, and Garza (1999). The results showed that the FLRAS measured three different subcomponents of foreign…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Likert Scales, Measures (Individuals), Second Language Learning
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Zhu, Lian; Aslan, Erhan – TESL-EJ, 2023
While foreign language anxiety has received abundant empirical attention, its relationship with foreign language enjoyment and specific language skills is not clearly understood. The present study explores the relationships between Chinese EFL learners' foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA), foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and listening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), Likert Scales
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Pan, Chunmei; Zhang, Xian – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The present longitudinal study investigated the changes of FLE (foreign language enjoyment) and FLA (foreign language anxiety) over time in the foreign language classroom and their relationship with foreign language learning motivation and learners' personality traits. Fifty-five college students completed an FLE/FLA questionnaire after English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personality Traits, Anxiety
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Ziauddin Quvanch; Ahmad Shah Qasemi; Kew Si Na – Cogent Education, 2024
Proficiency in speaking is essential for effective communication; however, anxiety serves as a significant barrier that negatively impacts oral performance, particularly in EFL contexts. This study addresses this issue by investigating speaking anxiety among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in Afghanistan, where limited research exists…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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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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