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Niannian He; Rongping Cao; Chao Mou – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Studies remain controversial concerning how enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom relate to foreign language learning (FLL) achievement. There is an inadequacy of synthesis of factors addressing the debate on emotion correlations in the empirical results. Underpinned by the control-value theory (CVT) of achievement emotions, a meta-analysis is conducted…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Second Language Learning, Likert Scales, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Piniel, Katalin; Zólyomi, Anna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Exploring language learners' anxiety is not a neglected area of inquiry in applied linguistics research, which can primarily be attributed to the publication of the "Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale" ("FLCAS"), an influential instrument developed by Horwitz et al. (1986) to measure language anxiety. An ever-growing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Gender Differences, Meta Analysis
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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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Botes, Elouise; Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Greiff, Samuel – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2020
Foreign language learners experience a unique type of anxiety during the language learning process: Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA). This situation-specific anxiety is frequently examined alongside academic achievement in foreign language courses. The present meta-analysis examined the relationship between FLCA measured through the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Toyama, Michiko; Yamazaki, Yoshitaka – SAGE Open, 2022
This study explored how foreign language anxiety in class relates to individualism-collectivism culture. Additionally, to serve as a guideline for foreign language anxiety assessment, the study determined a normative score of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), which is well known and frequently applied for foreign language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Cultural Differences
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Oteir, Ibrahim Naser; Al-Otaibi, Abdullah Nijr – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Research in foreign language learning has notably revealed that foreign language anxiety has been a crucial area in applied linguistics. Therefore, this study tends to give a comprehensive review of literature on foreign language anxiety. This review also tries to add an additional explanation to the earlier studies of this issue. It clarifies the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics