The main purpose of this study is to test whether students’ performance in official language tests the university context influenced, apart from anxiety, by certain personality traits. A sample 394 students Spain were assessed academic using Test English for International Communication: Listening and Reading (TOEIC L&R), Foreign Language Anxiety Spanish version Classroom Scale (FLCAS), Anxi...

This study sought to measures the foreign language classroom anxiety of English Department students a university in Indonesia and compare across independent demographic variables gender length at department. The literature shows that learning affects one’s achievements language. Data were collected through administration adapted version Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale 96 selected strat...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI), foreign language anxiety (FLA), and demotivational factors (DF) at a foundation university in Istanbul, Turkey. 148 B1 (intermediate level) students enrolled English preparatory school participated this study. Data were collected from Turkish-adapted version of Emotional Intelligence Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), ...

Learning a second language has become necessity for human beings, because in daily life they face globalization, which requires knowing or mastering other languages apart from the native one. This challenge inhabitants of country nation, generating them an anxious feeling that prevents learning easily. Linguistic anxiety is apprehension experienced front situation use foreign with individual do...

This paper reports on a study that took positive psychology approach to foreign language anxiety reduction. More specifically, it investigated whether reminiscing about achievements could effectively diminish the learners’ classroom anxiety. It also explored patterns nested in process. To this end, 88 first Chinese university students of English were randomly assigned into experimental (n = 43)...