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Language Learning and Perfectionism: Anxious and Non-Anxious Language Learners' Reactions to Their Own Oral Performance.
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Gregersen, Tammy; Horwitz, Elaine K. – Modern Language Journal, 2002
This interview study examined the relationship between foreign language anxiety and perfectionism. Comments of anxious and non-anxious learners were audiorecorded as they watched themselves interact in a videotaped oral interview. Results suggest that anxious and non-anxious learners differ in their personal performance standards, procrastination,…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Interviews, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction
Teachers and Students, Students and Teachers: An Ever-Evolving Partnership.
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Horwitz, Elaine K. – Modern Language Journal, 2000
Provides a historical overview of "Modern Language Journal" articles that describe the teacher-learner relationship. The review focuses on how language learners have been portrayed in the journal and the implications of these portrayals for language teaching. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Scholarly Journals, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
It Ain't over 'til It's Over: On Foreign Language Anxiety, First Language Deficits, and the Confounding of Variables.
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Horwitz, Elaine K. – Modern Language Journal, 2000
Replies on behalf of the authors of a previous article to a critique of their study on foreign language anxiety. Argues that factors other than cognitive-linguistic deficits contribute to problems in foreign language achievement. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Learning Disabilities, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Foreign Language Reading Anxiety.
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Saito, Yoshiko; Horwitz, Elaine K.; Garza, Thomas J. – Modern Language Journal, 1999
Discusses the possibility of anxiety in response to foreign- or second-language reading. Introduces the construct of foreign-language reading anxiety, offers a scale for its measurement, and reports on a preliminary study of reading anxiety in 30 intact first-semester classes of Spanish, Russian, and Japanese. (VWL)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Communication Apprehension, Higher Education
A Graduate Course Focusing on the Second Language Learner.
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Horwitz, Elaine K.; Bresslau, Barbara; Dryden, Marianne; McLendon, Mary Elizabeth; Yu, Jyu-Fang – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Discusses a graduate course that prepares language teachers by emphasizing ways to tailor instruction to learners' needs and demonstrates multiple forms of collaboration. Course participants discuss their collaborative learning experiences and their expectations for using such approaches in their own teaching. (14 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Graduate Study, Higher Education
The Beliefs about Language Learning of Beginning University Foreign Language Students.
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Horwitz, Elaine K. – Modern Language Journal, 1988
Reports on a study identifying the varying beliefs of beginning university foreign language students about language learning, focusing on one component of an ongoing investigation attempting to characterize individual learner beliefs and belief systems by student type. (CB)
Descriptors: French, German, Higher Education, Language Attitudes
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety.
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Horwitz, Elaine K.; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1986
Identifies foreign language anxiety as a conceptually distinct variable in foreign language learning and interprets it with the context of existing theoretical and empirical work on specific anxiety reactions. Discusses the effects of this anxiety on language learning and its pedagogical implications. (SED)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Apprehension, Fear, Second Language Learning