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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. 53 No. -, 2008.

Original scientific paper

Foreign Language Anxiety and Listening Comprehension of Monolingual and Bilingual EFL Learners

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

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Abstract

This paper discusses the results of a research study focusing on foreign language
anxiety and listening comprehension in learning English as a foreign language (EFL).
The study was carried out on a sample of 56 monolingual and 56 bilingual Croatian
learners of EFL. The results point to significantly higher levels of language anxiety
among monolingual than among bilingual learners in all three stages of the foreign
language learning process, and significantly higher levels of listening comprehension
of bilingual learners compared to monolingual learners. A significant negative relationship
between language anxiety and achievement in EFL listening comprehension
was established in both of the studied groups.

Keywords

foreign language anxiety; bilingualism; listening comprehension; EFL

Hrčak ID:

40456

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/40456

Publication date:

26.5.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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