Foreign Language Anxiety among College Students.

Autor/inn/en	Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Bailey, Phillip; Daley, Christine E.
Titel	Foreign Language Anxiety among College Students.
Quelle	(1997), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Academic Achievement; Age Differences; Anxiety; College Freshmen; College Sophomores; College Students; Communication Apprehension; Competition; Educational Attitudes; Higher Education; Knowledge Level; Language Attitudes; Personality Traits; Predictor Variables; Second Language Learning; Second Languages; Self Concept; Self Esteem; Stress Variables; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Angst; Studienanfänger; Sophomore; Student; Students; Studentin; Collegestudent; Wettkampf; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Wissensbasis; Sprachverhalten; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Prädiktor; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Selbstkonzept; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	This study investigated predictors of foreign language anxiety in 210 university students enrolled in French, Spanish, German, and Japanese language courses. Several instruments were used to gather information on student characteristics, study behaviors, attitudes, and language anxiety experience during the fourth week of the semester. Results revealed that 14 variables (gender, age, academic achievement, semester course load, prior history of visiting foreign countries, high school experience with foreign languages, expected grade for current language course, perceived intellectual ability, perceived scholastic competence, perceived appearance, perceived self-worth, cooperativeness, value placed on competitive learning, academic locus of control) contributed significantly to prediction of foreign language anxiety. Freshmen and sophomores reported the lowest levels of anxiety, and levels increased linearly as a function of year of study. Implications of the findings for understanding language anxiety and for classroom teaching and learning are discussed. Contains 13 references. (MSE)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01