scholarly journals “POR QUE NÃO JOGO TUDO PRA CIMA E ABANDONO DE VEZ O APRENDIZADO EM INGLÊS?” REFLEXÕES E ENTENDIMENTOS SOBRE A ANSIEDADE DE LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA / “Why don’t I throw it all to the wind and give up learning English once and for all?” Reflections and understandings about foreign language anxiety

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-162
Author(s):  
Fernanda Vieira da Rocha Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Learning English

A ansiedade de língua estrangeira (ALE) vem sendo amplamente investigada como um dos fatores de ordem afetiva que mais negativamente interfere no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras e causa sofrimento emocional aos aprendizes e usuários dessas línguas (HORWITZ, 1986, 2010). Este estudo de caso de cunho qualitativo em andamento, se insere na área da linguística aplicada e no arcabouço ético, teórico e metodológico da Prática Exploratória (ALLWRIGHT, 1991, 2003). A pesquisa tem como objetivos apresentar os sentimentos de um aprendiz adulto que se considera ansioso em relação à aprendizagem e uso da língua inglesa, seus puzzles sobre a sua vivência na língua inglesa e entendimentos (co)construídos em um encontro ocorrido na plataforma RNP, no qual foi realizada uma conversa exploratória. Dos quinze puzzles criados pelo participante, onze foram selecionados para a análise interpretativa. O aporte teórico que embasa a pesquisa inclui a conceituação, a tipologia e os instrumentos de aferição da ALE, assim como a sua relação com a Prática Exploratória, que traz em seu cerne princípios e propósitos. Os dados mostram que o aprendiz apresenta sentimentos negativos em relação à aprendizagem e ao uso da língua inglesa condizentes com a literatura sobre a ALE. O percurso reflexivo trilhado durante a conversa exploratória sobre os puzzles criados pelo participante nos trouxe entendimentos sobre esses sentimentos negativos e sobre como algumas características da sua personalidade podem interferir na sua qualidade de vida enquanto aprendiz e usuário da língua inglesa.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Foreign Language Anxiety, Gender, Years of Learning English and Learners’ Oral English Achievement Amongst Chinese College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Hualan Tan ◽  
Zhilong Xie
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
English Achievement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Learning English

English serves as a bridge of communication for the people from all over the world as it plays an increasingly crucial role in the process of globalization. In accordance with English curriculum standards issued by the Ministry of Education in 2011, the ultimate goal of English language discipline is to communicate. But over these years, China’s English education has been difficult to get out of the dilemma of “Dumb English”. When facing the real oral communication situations, students are still too nervous to speak with a great deal of fluency and accuracy. Therefore, the present study aims to explore the relationship between English language anxiety, gender, years of English learning and final oral English achievement by inviting 41 English major freshmen of foreign language departments of Nanchang Business College. For this purpose, this study adopts a reliable Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale developed by Horwitz and Cope (1986) to measure students’ anxiety. The results reveal that anxiety levels between males and females are similar; there is also no significant difference among years of learning English; however, a significantly negative correlation between college students’ foreign language anxiety and their oral English learning achievement was found.

scholarly journals Variations in motivation, anxiety and boredom in learning English in Second Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Kruk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Second Year ◽  
High Level ◽  
Level Of Motivation ◽  
Learning English

The article presents the results of a study whose main aim was to investigate the changes in motivation, language anxiety and boredom in learning English in Second Life. The sample consisted of 16 second year students of English philology. The study was conducted over the period of a summer semester. During that time the participants in the study were asked to use Second Life and practice English there in their own time. The data were obtained by means of a background questionnaire and session logs and subjected to quantitative and qualitative analysis. The results show that the students declared quite a high level of motivation to learn English in Second Life, a low level of anxiety and a relatively low level of boredom. In addition, the findings of the study revealed that both the reported motivation as well as the experience of boredom fluctuated over time. In contrast, the levels of foreign language anxiety declared by the subjects remained almost unchanged. Possible causes of such fluctuations are offered.

scholarly journals Exploring Fear of Negative Evaluation in Foreign Language Anxiety: Photovoice of Undergraduates in Speaking Class

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Anindyastuti Wardhani
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Common Situation ◽  
Learning English

Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) is a common situation happens in EFL classroom. This phenomenon usually causes the students’ anxiety while they are learning English. The previous study proved that language learners performed significantly better on oral foreign language if they were in less anxious situations. Students’ unwillingness for participating speaking activities in the classroom caused by their assumption of being judged negatively and lack of mastering the speaking skill. The objective of this research is to explore whether there is foreign language anxiety problem among Indonesian undergraduates in speaking class. The researchers collected and processed the data using Photovoice. The participants of this research were 14 undergraduate students in the 5th semester. The findings indicated that the students have anxiety during performing speaking activity in classroom. As the implication, teachers can facilitate the students by creating a conducive, comfortable, and non-threatening class to help alleviating the students' foreign language anxiety.

scholarly journals Does High Anxiety Decrease Motivation for Learning English as a Foreign Language?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Huda M. Almurshed ◽  
Wafa Aljuaythin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
High Level ◽  
Level Of Motivation ◽  
Learning English

This study investigates the relationship between the level of foreign language anxiety experienced by Saudi female English learners at a Saudi university and the level of their motivation in learning English as a foreign language. The participants were 40 female second-year university students. The instruments the researchers used to gather the data were two questionnaires: Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope’s (1986) Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and Gardner’s (2006) Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB). The data were analyzed by calculating the percentages of students’ responses to each item. The findings revealed that Saudi female English learners at King Saud University experienced high levels of foreign language anxiety. The findings also revealed that the learners were highly motivated to learn English. This demonstrates that a high level of motivation to learn English does not prevent the occurrence of a significant level of anxiety. That is, motivation can control foreign language anxiety and assist anxious learners in their determination to learn English.

scholarly journals Foreign Language Anxiety and Student Interpreters’ Learning Outcomes: Implications for the Theory and Measurement of Interpretation Learning Anxiety

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yung-Nan Chiang
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Learning Anxiety ◽  
Exam Scores

Although anxiety has been documented as an important variable in both interpretation performance and second language acquisition, there has been virtually no research on the interconnections between the anxiety reactions induced by these two cross-linguistic / cultural endeavors. A review of the literature on anxiety and interpretation performance finds that most of the existing studies have treated the anxiety induced by interpretation as a transfer of other general types of anxieties, such as trait anxiety, without considering the probable role of second language anxiety in interpretation performance. In order to determine the role of foreign language anxiety in 213 Chinese-English interpretation students’ learning outcomes, which were indexed by the participants’ mid-term exam scores and semester grades, this study employed Spielberger’s (1983)Trait Anxiety Inventoryto measure the students’ trait anxiety, while utilizing Horwitz, Horwitzet al.’s (1986)Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale(FLCAS) to measure the participants’ foreign language anxiety. Results of correlation analyses showed that a) trait anxiety was not related to either mid-term exam scores or semester grades, b) foreign language anxiety was significantly and negatively associated with both outcome measures, c) after controlling for the effect of trait anxiety, the relationship between foreign language anxiety and interpretation learning outcomes remained significant, and d) a vast majority of theFLCASitems had significant and negative associations with both outcome measures. Implications for developing a theory of and a measurement instrument for interpretation learning anxiety are suggested.

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