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ERIC Number: EJ1480086
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0155-0640
EISSN: EISSN-1833-7139
Available Date: 0000-00-00
One Cohort or Two? Enjoyment, Anxiety and Study Behaviours among Intermediate Language Learners in Tertiary Language Classes
Louisa Willoughby; Satoshi Nambu; Barbara Pezzotti
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, v48 n2 p329-349 2025
Foreign language anxiety and enjoyment have been shown to correlate with each other (Botes et al., 2022), but few studies to date have considered whether distinct groups of learners within the one class may experience these variables differently. This article considers whether learners who have arrived in Australian university intermediate language classrooms via two different pipelines, either having studied the language at university the year before or entering directly from high school, report diverse levels of enjoyment, anxiety, or out-of-class study behaviours. The study draws on data from 141 students studying at an Australian university who allowed their questionnaire data to be matched to their final grade for the unit. While there was no significant difference in the final grades awarded to students from each pipeline, the two groups reported differences in their experience of anxiety, and study behaviours. When it came to final grades only Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) was clearly predictive of performance.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Strategy Inventory for Language Learning
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