Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A Practical Approach to Critical Analysis of Quantitative Research (review)

Language ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-633
Author(s):  
Lisa DeWaard Dykstra
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Research Review

Foreign Language Anxiety and Learner Beliefs in Second Language Learning: A Research Timeline

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 1591
Author(s):  
Illahi Bux Gopang ◽  
Faraz Ali Bughio ◽  
Shumaila Aijaz Memon ◽  
Jalal Faiz
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Learner Beliefs

Research in second language learning has significantly demonstrated that foreign language anxiety and learner beliefs have been the main domain of inquiry in applied linguistics. Such interest has seen upsurge in studies on L2 anxiety and learner beliefs. This study tends to review language anxiety and learner beliefs in language learning. The review shows moderate and high levels of language anxiety in studies including negative correlation between anxiety and achievement. In addition, it also reveals that learner beliefs have played a role in increasing language anxiety. Moreover, research studies on FLA (foreign language anxiety) and LB (learner beliefs) describe a whole scenario of the exiting literature. The study also critiques some pedagogical strategies suggested in research and how far these are applicable in decreasing language anxiety and avoiding incorrect beliefs about language learning. Further, the research review suggests that different approaches are used to quantify language anxiety and to describe beliefs in language learning. Since, the prime purpose of the study is to review the approaches and their validity and reliability in describing language anxiety and beliefs. The study synthesizes foreign language anxiety and learner beliefs studies and offers some recommendations in order to complement and supplement the existing literature.

scholarly journals Uchybienia metodologiczne w badaniach ilościowych w językoznawstwie stosowanym

Neofilolog ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Jacek Rysiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Reliable Source

For quantitative research to be a reliable source of primary-data in second language acquisition (SLA), methodological rigour in positing and testing hypotheses about the nature of factors at play in foreign/second language learning is of paramount importance. Invalid and unreliable tools, irrelevant research questions and/or hypotheses, faulty research designs, and incorrectly used tools of data analysis all lead to erratic and undependable interpretations of the findings. The article is an attempt at a critical appraisal of selected aspects of quantitative research done in Poland over the last two or three years in the area of L2/FL language acquisition/learning. The reports have either been presented at conferences, published in professional journals or carried out in the course of MA and/or PhD dissertations.

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