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Direct linkLiu, Meihua; Dong, Lianqi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The present longitudinal study examined the changes in foreign language reading anxiety and its predicting effects on Chinese university students' reading English performance. The 29-item Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS), a background questionnaire and a reading quiz were administered to two intact classes of an English Reading…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Predictor Variables
Pan, Chunmei; Zhang, Xian – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The present longitudinal study investigated the changes of FLE (foreign language enjoyment) and FLA (foreign language anxiety) over time in the foreign language classroom and their relationship with foreign language learning motivation and learners' personality traits. Fifty-five college students completed an FLE/FLA questionnaire after English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personality Traits, Anxiety
Download full textSparks, Richard L. – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
This paper examines evidence for relationships among individual differences (IDs) in L1 achievement, L2 aptitude, and L2 achievement. It begins by providing an overview of my academic journey from L1 educator to L2 researcher and explains the development of the Linguistic Coding Differences Hypothesis (LCDH). Next, I review Peter Skehan's…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Aptitude, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Elahi Shirvan, Majid; Taherian, Tahereh – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Dewaele and MacIntyre. [2016. 'Foreign language enjoyment and foreign language classroom anxiety: The right and left feet of the language learner.' In "Positive psychology in SLA," edited by T. Gregersen, P. D. MacIntyre, and S. Mercer, 215-236. Bristol: Multilingual Matters] asserted that foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students
Jin, Yinxing; de Bot, Kees; Keijzer, Merel – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
Adopting a longitudinal design, this study investigates the effects of foreign language anxiety on foreign language proficiency over time within English and Japanese learning contexts. It also explores the stability of anxiety in English and Japanese over time and the stability of anxiety across English and Japanese. Chinese university students (N…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Language Proficiency, Japanese, Longitudinal Studies
Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon – Language Learning, 2013
The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) has been challenged on the grounds that it may also assess language learning skills. In this study, 128 students who had been administered measures of first language (L1) skills in elementary school were followed from 1st to 10th grade. Fifty-three students had completed second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Elementary School Students, Language Aptitude
