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Çelikpazu, Esra Ekinci; Tasdemir, Fazilet – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
Anxiety is an affective variable that impacts learning negatively by impeding cognitive progress. Anxiety is associated with learners' individual differences such as beliefs, attitudes, expectations, motivation, and emotions. It has been determined in many studies that anxiety affects language learning negatively and interferes with many types of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Grammar, Test Construction, Turkish
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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
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Yaikhong, Kriangkrai; Usaha, Siriluck – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study contributes to developing a Public Speaking Class Anxiety Scale (PSCAS) to measure anxiety in the EFL public speaking class in the Thai context. Items were adopted from previous scales: Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) by Horwitz et al. (1986); Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) and Personal…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Anxiety, Measures (Individuals), English (Second Language)
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Huang, Shufen; Eslami, Zohreh; Hu, Rou-Jui Sophia – English Language Teaching, 2010
This study sought to shed light on the relationship between support (from teachers and peers) and foreign-language learners' anxiety. A total of 158 adult Taiwanese English-language learners completed three questionnaires: a background questionnaire, the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale, and the Classroom Life Measure. The results showed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety