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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
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Yigit, Ecenaz; Keser, Ömer Faruk; Uzun, Levent – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
Foreign language learning is one of the most significant endeavours for people in all countries in the world. Turkey has given importance to foreign language learning for years. Nevertheless, it has been an unresolved problem for Turkish people. The purpose of the present study is to determine why people fail to learn foreign languages in Turkey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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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
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Phongsa, Manivone; Mohamed Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik; Low, Hui Min – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Foreign language anxiety is common among adult learners, especially those who lack exposure to the language that they are learning. In this study, we compared the foreign language anxiety experienced by monolingual and bilingual tertiary students in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) who were learning English as a Foreign Language. The…
Descriptors: Laotians, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Serquina, Evelyn A.; Batang, Boyet L. – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Difficulty in expressing oneself using the International language is a continuing issue in classroom situations. The descriptive research design using correlational method was employed in this study. Point-biserial correlation was used to determine the degree of relationship between sex and nature of parents' occupation and psychological and…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Göçer, Ali – Online Submission, 2014
The purpose of this study is to assess the anxiety connected with target language of the high school students who are learning Turkish as a foreign language in terms of certain variables. The study used FLCAS--Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale that was developed by Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986) and was made validity and reliability by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes