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Peer reviewedSpielmann, Guy; Radnofsky, Mary L. – Modern Language Journal, 2001
Examines the role of tension in the process of instructed second/foreign language acquisition on the basis of findings from a comprehensive ethnography of the 7-week intensive beginners' class in the summer French School of Middlebury College. This project completes and challenges the current research paradigm on language anxiety as it shifts the…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Ethnography, French, Intensive Language Courses
