Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2021.516
EMOTIONAL ANXIETY, FRUSTRATION OF FAILURE AND THE CHAIN MEDIATING EFFECT OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING PERFORMANCE
Yanyan Ren
; School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China
Abstract
Background: Anxiety is one of the greatest emotional obstacles in language learning. College English teaching has shifted from
focusing on external factors such as the improvement of teaching hardware facilities to focusing on learners language learning
awareness, language psychological changes, language cognitive ability, and language emotional performance.
Subjects and methods: This study was carried out on a sample of 318 Chinese undergraduates. This paper suggests that
emotional anxiety is a key factor leading to low language learning efficiency and has a negative impact on project-based learning
performance. Then two variables: frustration of failure and learning satisfaction, are introduced, and a multi-chain mediating model
is established to explore the transmission mechanism of emotional anxiety and learning performance.
Results: With the increase of emotional anxiety, students learning performance will be significantly affected in the process of
project-based learning, and the results verify the negative relationship between anxiety and learning acquisition. Three paths that
affect emotional anxiety on learning performance are identified, namely, Emotional Anxiety -- Frustration of Failure -- Learning
Satisfaction -- Learning Performance, Emotional Anxiety -- Frustration of Failure -- Learning Performance and Emotional
Anxiety -- Learning Satisfaction -- Learning Performance.
Conclusions: English learning is not only a process of language cognition, but also a process of psychological changes in
learners. The achievement of learning performance is not only affected by language characteristics, students cognitive ability, and
learning environments, but also by non-intellectual factors such as learning attitude, learning motivation and emotions.
Keywords
emotional anxiety; english learning; psychological changes; learning performance
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268105
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Publication date:
21.12.2021.
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