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Download full textGardner, R. C.; And Others – 1987
A study investigated the relationship of different aspects of anxiety and second language production in a relatively non-threatening oral production task. Subjects were 43 introductory psychology students who had completed grade 12 French instruction at least 1 year prior to the study who had not had any formal French instruction since then. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Characteristics, Foreign Countries, French
Peer reviewedYoung, Dolly J. – Foreign Language Annals, 1986
College students (N=60) majoring in French, German, or Spanish took Self-Appraisal of Speaking Proficiency and State Anxiety Inventory before being assessed by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). Results showed that anxiety did not exert as much influence on scores as ability did. However, once…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, French, German
