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Tongyu Wu – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Many previous studies have identified "foreign language anxiety" and "motivation" as two important areas of applied linguistics. This study aims to evaluate the pertinent literature with also providing new information and justifications in past studies on learning anxiety and motivation. In this paper, the first section…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Hsiao, Tsung-Yuan; Tseng, Wen-Ta – SAGE Open, 2022
Researchers have agreed that language anxiety is situation-specific; however, whether existing instruments measure stable or transient components of this anxiety remains controversial. Therefore, this study examined language anxiety's trait stability and state variability. The results from synthesizing 21 test-retest correlations based on existing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
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Pan, Chunmei; Zhang, Xian – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The present longitudinal study investigated the changes of FLE (foreign language enjoyment) and FLA (foreign language anxiety) over time in the foreign language classroom and their relationship with foreign language learning motivation and learners' personality traits. Fifty-five college students completed an FLE/FLA questionnaire after English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personality Traits, Anxiety
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Rahmaty, Hanieh; Zarei, Abbas Ali – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Given the importance of assessment in language education, the main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of interactionist and interventionist Dynamic Assessment (DA) on EFL learners' perfectionism, willingness to communicate (WTC), and foreign language anxiety (FLA). The participants were 166 pre-intermediate EFL learners in two…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Alternative Assessment
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Li, Chengchen; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
Interest in the role of learners' personality, emotions and the learning environment in foreign language (FL) learning has grown exponentially in the past decade. The introduction of personality psychology in the field of applied linguistics has led to the inclusion of a set of personality dimensions in research designs like resilience and grit,…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Classroom Environment, Resilience (Psychology), Second Language Learning
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Yurtseven, Nihal; Akpur, Ugur – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2018
The purpose of the present study is to determine the predictive level of perfectionism, anxiety, and procrastination on academic achievement and to describe interrelationships among the variables. A convergent parallel mixed methods research design was applied in the study. The participants included 522 college students. The "Multidimensional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Personality Traits, Anxiety
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Resnik, Pia; Moskowitz, Sharona; Panicacci, Alex – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the education sector soon faced the unprecedented challenge of moving courses online within no time. The rapid implementation of emergency remote teaching (ERT) led to students and teachers alike being thrown into an emotional terra incognita. This paper sets out to explore if foreign language (LX) grit,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Scores
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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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Thompson, Amy S.; Lee, Junkyu – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
This study aims to investigate the effect of experience abroad and second language proficiency on foreign language classroom anxiety. Particularly, this study is an attempt to fill the gap in the literature about the affective outcomes after experiences abroad through the anxiety profiles of Korean learners of English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Anxiety, Questionnaires