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Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia : Revue publiée par les Sections romane, italienne et anglaise de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Zagreb, Vol. 49 No. -, 2004.

Original scientific paper

Beyond Language Anxiety

Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9430-7526 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

The article focuses on the relationship of language anxiety and a number of other
individual difference variables. In order to understand the role of language anxiety
in second language acquisition and behaviour, the author describes a study in which
she tried to check the validity of five hypotheses based on findings of previous studies.
She looks into the correlations of the included individual difference variables
with language anxiety and with foreign language achievement and self-assessment
of foreign language skills. Only one of the hypotheses was confirmed by her findings.
She concludes that the impact of anxiety on language learning and use should
be reconsidered and suggests some directions for future research.

Keywords

language use anxiety; trait anxiety; communication apprehension; self-assessment; willingness to communicate

Hrčak ID:

17406

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/17406

Publication date:

9.1.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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