Foreign Language Anxiety and Learner Beliefs in Second Language Learning: A Research Timeline
| Autor: | Shumaila Memon, Jalal Faiz, Illahi Bux Gopang, Faraz Ali Bughio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Comprehension approach education Validity Applied linguistics 06 humanities and the arts Second-language attrition Language acquisition Language and Linguistics Developmental psychology Language assessment 0602 languages and literature medicine Anxiety medicine.symptom Psychology Foreign language anxiety |
| Zdroj: | Theory and Practice in Language Studies. 6:1591 |
| ISSN: | 1799-2591 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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