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Bensalem, Elias; Thompson, Amy S. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The present project examined foreign language anxiety (FLA) and self-confidence experienced by bilingual and multilingual tertiary students in Saudi Arabia who were learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The study involved 354 students (163 bilinguals and 191 multilinguals) recruited from public Saudi universities. Participants answered the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety, College Students
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Elahi Shirvan, Majid; Taherian, Tahereh – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Dewaele and MacIntyre. [2016. 'Foreign language enjoyment and foreign language classroom anxiety: The right and left feet of the language learner.' In "Positive psychology in SLA," edited by T. Gregersen, P. D. MacIntyre, and S. Mercer, 215-236. Bristol: Multilingual Matters] asserted that foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students
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Liu, Meihua – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
The present research explored bilingual/multilingual students' willingness to communicate in Chinese (WTCC) and foreign language anxiety (FLA) when speaking Chinese and their associations with self-rated proficiency in Chinese in a university in Beijing. The study recruited 167 bilingual and multilingual learners of Chinese to fill in a battery of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Chinese, Second Language Instruction
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Santos, Alaitz; Cenoz, Jasone; Gorter, Durk – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The present study focuses on the link between three factors, proficiency, language certificates and bilingualism, and levels of communicative anxiety in the third language (English) in two groups of adult users, university students and young professionals. The first group consisted of 217 university students who were enrolled at the University of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety, Questionnaires, English (Second Language)
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Thompson, Amy S.; Lee, Junkyu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
The current study is motivated by the gap in the current literature about foreign language classroom anxiety, namely the underlying construct of FL anxiety with regard to the understudied relationship between anxiety, proficiency, and multilingualism. The evidence for the effect of language anxiety on achievement is well-documented. More recently,…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Thirtle, Helen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
The present study focuses on 79 young teenagers enrolled in foreign language (FL) classes in a London school. Having to decide whether to pursue the study of FLs, three groups emerged: those wishing to pursue FL classes, those having decided to abandon FL classes, and those still undecided about further FL study. A comparison of the three groups…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students