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Huashan Wu – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Emotion research in second language acquisition has flourished under the growing influence of Positive Psychology in recent years. The present study focuses on foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) of 263 Chinese undergraduates in relation to learner variables as well as the sources of enjoyment and anxiety…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns, Second Language Learning
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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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Moskowitz, Sharona; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Intellectual humility (IH) involves a certain degree of selflessness and an accurate view of one's own worth and abilities. To date, IH has not been explicitly researched as a variable in the study of foreign language (FL) learning. The present mixed-methods study aims to explore possible links between FL learners' IH and their foreign language…
Descriptors: Role, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Kralova, Zdena; Tirpakova, Anna – SAGE Open, 2019
The current study aims to fill the gap in the current literature by focusing on the wide scale of nonnative English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perceptions and opinions in the specific context of a post-Communist country. It focuses on the link between five demographic variables (age, the length of English language study, English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Jee, Min Jung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This study investigated Korean heritage language (KHL) learners' foreign language classroom anxiety, reading anxiety and writing anxiety using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope, the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) by Saito, Garza and Horwitz and the Writing Apprehension Test (WAT) by…
Descriptors: Korean, Heritage Education, Anxiety, Correlation
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Subasi, Gonca – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
Recent research on foreign language anxiety appears to support the existence of language skill specific anxiety. The principal goal of the present study is to confirm empirically that foreign language (FL) reading anxiety is a specific anxiety type distinguishable from the more general types of FL anxiety (FLA) in the Turkish EFL context. There is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), College Freshmen, Second Language Learning