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Obsa Kebede Wakuma – Discover Education, 2025
The aim of this study was to explore the connection between students' anxiety levels during language classes and their performance on English achievement exams. A random sampling method was employed to select participants. Students' levels of foreign language classroom anxiety were measured using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale, a…
Descriptors: Anxiety, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Mauricio Véliz-Campos; Carola Villegas; Leonardo Veliz – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) is a distinct form of anxiety that plays a significant role in the process of acquiring a foreign language. This study aimed to assess the anxiety levels of Chilean undergraduate learners and investigate the potential correlations between foreign language anxiety and oral performance in two distinct learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Anxiety
Barber, Jared David – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
The learning of a second language is distinct from other types of learning, and involves a complex interplay of cognitive, affective, motivational, and emotional factors. Two important factors are language mindsets, the beliefs that learners hold regarding their language learning ability, and foreign language anxiety, the language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Correlation
Tongyu Wu – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Many previous studies have identified "foreign language anxiety" and "motivation" as two important areas of applied linguistics. This study aims to evaluate the pertinent literature with also providing new information and justifications in past studies on learning anxiety and motivation. In this paper, the first section…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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
Hamada, Akira; Takaki, Shuichi – Language Teaching, 2021
This paper reports an approximate replication of Matsuda and Gobel (2004) for the psychometric validation of the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS). Their study examined the structural aspects of the FLRAS developed by Saito, Horwitz, and Garza (1999). The results showed that the FLRAS measured three different subcomponents of foreign…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Likert Scales, Measures (Individuals), Second Language Learning
Zhu, Lian; Aslan, Erhan – TESL-EJ, 2023
While foreign language anxiety has received abundant empirical attention, its relationship with foreign language enjoyment and specific language skills is not clearly understood. The present study explores the relationships between Chinese EFL learners' foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA), foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and listening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), Likert Scales
Irene Acosta-Manzano; Elvira Barrios; Jorge García-Mata – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated the relationship between Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE), Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA), Out-of-Class Foreign Language Use (OCFLU) and learner factors (FL and FL proficiency level). Participants were 611 foreign language (FL) learners aged 16-72 at Spanish Official Language Schools. An online questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Likert Scales
Li Wang; Jie Huang; Wenqi Ye; Jun Lei – SAGE Open, 2025
This study adopted both variable- and person-centered methods to investigate Chinese primary school students' foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) as well as factors associated with these emotions, such as language proficiency, gender, grade level, school type, access to foreign teachers and after-school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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
Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Guneyli, Serhan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Purpose: Numerous studies have been conducted on foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA); however, research on the effect of parents' education, school type, and gender on EFL learners' anxiety in a single study is scarce. Therefore, to fill this niche, the present study aimed at investigating the impact of the above variables on FLCA. Research…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Private Schools
Appel, Christine; Cristòfol Garcia, Blanca – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Due to the increasing use of technology to enhance Foreign Language (FL) education, research on learners' emotions in new learning environments is calling for more attention (Beirne, Mac Lochlainn, Nic Giolla, & Mhichíl, 2018). In this study, we focus on Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA), a debilitating emotion; and e-Tandem learning, a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Student Attitudes
Jahedizadeh, Safoura; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Student evaluation apprehension as one of the detrimental factors in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context, reduces and gradually diminishes student participation in classroom activities, since learners are mostly concerned with how others (teacher and classmates) evaluate/judge their performance. Due to the fact that the studies…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Achievement
The Merit of Grit and Emotions in L2 Chinese Online Language Achievement: A Case of Arabian Students
Xian Zhao; Peijian Paul Sun; Man Gong – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided second language (L2) learners with additional challenges regarding how to obtain an enjoyable experience while achieving a better learning attainment. Despite a growing body of studies that substantiated the predictive effect of grit, foreign language enjoyment (FLE), and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLA)…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Persistence
Demir, Ayse Nesil; Zaimoglu, Senem – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
A growing number of studies have stressed the significance of foreign language anxiety in foreign language learning. However, these studies have generally demonstrated foreign language anxiety to be associated with foreign language achievement not with 21st century skills particularly decision-making strategies. Based on this, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction