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Mengxia Fu; Shaofeng Li – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This article reports on a study exploring the associations between foreign language anxiety and the effectiveness of immediate and delayed corrective feedback (CF) in the acquisition of the English past tense. One hundred and two middle school English as a foreign language (EFL) learners responded to the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Anxiety, Feedback (Response), Error Correction
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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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Tuncel, Filiz; Yapici, Asim; Akman, Pinar; Elçi, Abdullah Cemil; Demiroglari, Burcu; Kutlu, Mahmut Oguz – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
Anxiety has been a problem to many foreign language students and educators for many years. Studies on the anxiety of students regarding foreign languages have been conducted by educators, foreign language teachers, education experts and researchers. Thus, foreign language anxiety has become the focus of language learning. In the research, attempts…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Yelgeç, Nihal; Dagyar, Miray – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
This study aims to investigate the impact of metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy beliefs of middle school students on their level of foreign language learning anxiety by using structural equation modelling. A total of 285 7th and 8th grade students from a middle school in Turkey during the 2018-2019 academic year were included in the study.…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Middle School Students, Metacognition, Self Efficacy
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Ahmetovic, Emnijeta; Becirovic, Senad; Dubravac, Vildana – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine foreign language classroom anxiety and motivation to speak in English as a foreign language with respect to gender and grade level as well as their effects on students' EFL performance. The research sample comprised 160 (middle and high school) students. Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Gender Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
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Dolean, Dacian Dorin – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) has been the subject of several studies aimed to optimize learning of a foreign language in the classroom. However, few studies provide specific curriculum-based methodological strategies to be used in the classroom in order to lower the anxiety level. In this article, two experimental classes of 8th-grade…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer)