Anxiety and Second-Language Learning: Toward a Theoretical Clarification  

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Gardner, R.C. ; MacIntyre, Peter D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 39 no. 2 (Jun. 1989), page 251-276.
Fulltext: 39_02_MacIntyre.pdf (1.17MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/39 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Reviews of the literature on foreign-language anxiety show a considerable amount of ambiguity arising from the conflicting results of past studies. This study attempts to show that these difficulties can be resolved given an awareness of the theoritical perspective from which this research has developed. Specifically, it was predicted that anxiety based in the language environment would be associated with language learning whereas other types of anxiety would not show consistent relationships to performance. Eleven anxiety scales were factor analyzed yielding two orthogonal dimensions of anxiety which were labelled General Anxiety and Communicative Anxiety. It was found that only Communicative Anxiety is a factor in both the acquisition and production of French vocabulary. Analyses of the correlations between the anxiety scales and the measures of achievement show that scales of foreign-language anxiety are associated with performance. Scales of test anxiety, audience sensitivity, trait anxiety, and other types of anxiety did not correlate with any of the production measures. Finally, a model is proposed which describes the developement of foreign-language anxiety.

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