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Rezaabadi, Omid Talebi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This study investigated the relationships between the social anxiety, social class and listening-test anxiety of students learning English as a foreign language. The aims of the study were to examine the relationship between listening-test anxiety and listening-test performance. The data were collected using an adapted Foreign Language Listening…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Class, Teaching Methods, Test Anxiety
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GhorbanDordinejad, Farhad; Nasab, Amir Hosein Farjad – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
There are a number of individual and affective factors which correlate foreign language learners' achievement both positively and negatively. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between perfectionism and English language achievement among high school third graders in Chenaran, a city in northeast of Iran, mediated by foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Mostafavi, Fatemeh; Vahdany, Fereidoon – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The current study aimed at investigating the possible effects of explicit teaching of affective strategies on Iranian EFL learners' oral language proficiency and the extent of their anxiety in EFL classroom. First, PET test was administered to a total number of 120 female third grade high school EFL students. Then, 60 participants whose score fell…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Serraj, Samaneh; Noordin, Noreen Bt. – English Language Teaching, 2013
Anxiety is an influential factor in a foreign language learning domain and plays a crucial role in language learners' performance. The following study was conducted to explore the possible impact of Foreign Language Anxiety and Foreign Language Listening Anxiety on language learners' listening skill. The researcher was interested to know the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
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Hewitt, Elaine; Stephenson, Jean – Modern Language Journal, 2012
This article reports on a replication study of a substantial piece of research published in "The Modern Language Journal", carried out by Elaine Matties Phillips in 1992, and entitled "The Effects of Language Anxiety on Students' Oral Test Performance and Attitudes." The aim of both studies was to assess the influence of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Oral Language
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Önem, Evrim; Ergenç, Iclal – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2013
Much research has shown that there is a negative relationship between high levels of anxiety and success for English language teaching. This paper aimed to test a model of teaching for anxiety and success in English language teaching to affect anxiety and success levels at the same time in a control-experiment group with pre- and post-test study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries