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The Relationship between Foreign Language Anxiety and Learning Difficulties
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Chen, Tsai-Yu; Chang, Goretti B. Y. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This study investigated the possible existence of causal links between anxiety and language learning difficulties by using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986) to examine anxiety and the Foreign Language Screening Instrument for Colleges (FLSI-C) (Ganschow & Sparks, 1991) to explore learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Higher Education
Comparison of L2 Listening and Reading Comprehension by University Students Learning English in Korea
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Park, Gi-Pyo – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This study compared L2 listening comprehension with L2 reading comprehension in terms of the roles of linguistic knowledge, background knowledge, and question types among 168 university students learning English in Korea. The analyses of the data found that L2 listeners processed inferential information more easily than factual information, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension
Foreign Language Teachers' Perceptions of Students' Academic Skills, Affective Characteristics, and Proficiency: Replication and Follow-up Studies
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Sparks, Richard L.; Ganschow, Leonore; Artzer, Marjorie E.; Siebenhar, David; Plageman, Mark – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
Two studies explore the relationship between foreign language teachers' perceptions of their students' academic skills and affective characteristics and their native language skills, foreign language aptitude, and oral and written foreign language proficiency. In Study I (replication), students who scored significantly lower on native language and…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Language Proficiency, Language Aptitude, Language Teachers
Effect of Using Photos from Authentic Video as Advance Organizers on Listening Comprehension in an FLES Chinese Class
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Wilberschied, Lee; Berman, Peiyan M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
To investigate differences in achievement in foreign language listening comprehension, 61 students in a Foreign Language in an Elementary School (FLES) program were studied during instruction using video clips from authentic Chinese TV broadcasts in two advance organizer conditions. The first type of advance organizer consisted of written words…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension, FLES
Ongoing Assessment of a University Foreign Language Program
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Mathews, Thomas J.; Hansen, Cheryl M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This paper reviews the process a university foreign language department went through in developing a procedure to assess its curriculum using the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and, to a lesser extent, the National Standards, as guiding principles (National Standards, 1996). This procedure included a noncredit workshop that met only once to inform…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, National Standards, Achievement Tests, Language Proficiency
Report on Foreign Language Enrollment in Public Secondary Schools, Fall 1985.
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Dandonoli, Patricia – Foreign Language Annals, 1987
Data from the fifteenth American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages survey on foreign language enrollment are presented in charts which indicate public high school enrollments (in Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, and Latin) from 1980-1985, foreign language enrollment by state, level of instruction, and enrollments in less…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, French, High Schools, Italian