Professional paper
Foreign language anxiety
Marija Hazdovac
orcid.org/0009-0004-8745-225X
; Visoka škola za menadžment i dizajn Aspira
Marijeta Plemenčić
orcid.org/0009-0009-4675-4821
Abstract
This article deals with foreign language anxiety. Taking into consideration that foreign language speaking anxiety plays an important role in learning and mastering a foreign language, the first part of the article deals with theory, definitions, causes and manifestations of foreign language anxiety.
The second part consists of the results and analysis of the quantitative research conducted in March 2020 on the sample of the first and second year students at University College Aspira both in Zagreb and Split who study English as the first foreign language and Italian as the second foreign language. The authors have created a foreign language anxiety questionnaire based on Foreign language classroom anxiety scale (Horwitz, 1983). The aim of the research is to prove foreign language speaking anxiety and detect correlation with the level of foreign language learning, public speaking and self evaluation of language skills together with the formal language learning experience. The research also tries to determine the differences in the intensity level of anxiety among the examinees who study different foreign languages.
Keywords
anxiety, foreign language anxiety; foreign language classroom anxiety scale, native speaker, self-confidence
Hrčak ID:
311803
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Publication date:
21.12.2023.
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