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Hilal Günes – Online Submission, 2025
This study aimed to (a) explore the perceived levels of English language self-efficacy, enjoyment, and anxiety among EFL learners and (b) test a hypothesized model investigating their interrelations and potential predictive effects on English Language Achievement (ELA). Using a quantitative, non-experimental correlational design, data were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Lihong Ma; Lixueqing Liu; Shaoqian Luo; Jian Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Building on situated emotion framework, this study examined the variations in foreign language (FL) enjoyment, anxiety, boredom, and burnout between urban and rural students in China. The sample included 1,455 urban (55.6% male) and 546 rural students (53% male) (M[subscript age] = 15.41). Data were gathered through self-administered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Urban Differences, Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning
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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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Al-Saraj, Taghreed M. – L2 Journal, 2014
With the increase in globalization, the study of English has become common in Saudi Arabia, but students' experiences of foreign language anxiety (FLA) have been underexamined. Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries are culturally distinct from the Western world, where the most popular assessments of FLA were developed. Through a qualitative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires