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Medaille, Ann; Usinger, Janet – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2020
The classroom environment can be highly social, a situation which may prove challenging for students with quiet tendencies. This qualitative study focused on the perceptions of 10 self-identified quiet college students through an analysis of their first-hand accounts of their experiences in postsecondary classrooms. This study found three major…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Classroom Environment, Physical Environment, Social Environment
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Fatima, Irum; Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed; Pathan, Zahid Hussain; Memon, Ubedullah – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
In learning English as a foreign language (EFL), classroom is a primary source where learners find opportunities to make communication in the English language and enhance their L2 WTC and L2 communicative abilities. Keeping in view the pivotal importance of classroom environment in shaping EFL learners' WTC, the present research unravels the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Anxiety, Speech Communication, Extraversion Introversion
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Al-Saraj, Taghreed M. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The present study focuses on the link between psychological, sociobiographical and linguistic variables and Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety of 348 Arabic learners of English (250 females, 98 males). Data were collected using the Arabic Foreign Language Anxiety Questionnaire (AFLAQ; Al-Saraj, 2011, 2014) and an Arabic version of the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Environment, Arabs, English (Second Language)
Brophy, Jere – 1996
This ERIC digest focuses on students who are commonly described as shy (inhibited, lacking in confidence, socially anxious) or withdrawn (unresponsive, uncommunicative, or daydreaming). Symptoms of shyness or withdrawal may appear as part of the student's overall personality or as a situation-specific response to a particular stress factor.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Bibliotherapy