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Tjaša Dražnik; Júlia Llompart-Esbert; Mari Bergroth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examined student teachers' beliefs about teaching multilingual classrooms across three European contexts; Slovenia, Spain (Catalonia), and Finland. Research shows that teachers' confidence in handling linguistically diverse classrooms is lacking. Linguistically sensitive teaching (LST) was used as a lens to explore different expressions…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies
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Thompson, Amy S.; Khawaja, Anastasia J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
As part of a larger study on individual differences and language learning in Turkey, this study explores the relationship between foreign language anxiety and two operationalisations of multilingualism: any experience with a third language and Perceived Positive Language Interaction; it also illuminates connections among the aforementioned…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Profiles
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Lee, Jang Ho – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
The present study was designed to examine the effects of short-term study abroad (SA) on learners' L2 anxiety, international posture, and L2 willingness to communicate (WTC). To this end, the SA experience of 69 L2 learners in four different SA programmes was investigated. The data were obtained from participant questionnaires, which were…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Trang, Tran Thi Thu; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Moni, Karen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) has been found to exist in tertiary students learning foreign languages in many countries; however, limited research has explored how it develops. This study investigated how anxiety developed in students of English as a foreign language (EFL), focusing on changes in their feelings about EFL learning as they learned,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Measures (Individuals), Second Language Instruction