This study examined the relationships between L2 learners' anxiety, self-confidence and oral performance. The participants were 132 Korean college students who enrolled the English conversation classes in 2004. Questionnaires related to anxiety and self-confidence were given to the students and their oral performances were assessed in terms of IATEFL's criteria. Factor analysis indicated that c...

Abstract Second language (L2) researchers have long acknowledged the role of anxiety in communication processes, such that learners with greater tend to be less willing engage communication. However, little research has explored links between L2 speakers’ perceptions conversation and dynamic measures anxiety. Therefore, this study measured 60 English galvanic skin response (a physiological inde...

The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science and Technology (MEXT) are facing a plethora of pressures to become more global. This has led MEXT to draw up the ‘English Education Reform Plan Corresponding to Globalization.’ This education reform plan calls for a move away from grammar translation in favor of a communication based classroom. These reforms are to be implemented b...

This study examines the links between L2 linguistic knowledge, L2 listening strategy use, self-determined motivation, and L2 listening anxiety relative to L2 listening proficiency. Prior theoretical and empirical work suggests that these variables are interrelated in complex ways, and this hypothesis is tested here using structural equation modeling with a sample of 300 high school foreign lang...

In the field of second language (L2) research, there is a growing recognition vital need to explore diversity emotional experiences learning. This paper explores problem foreign classroom shame (FLCS) in Japanese classes among university students China. study investigated China students’ perspectives on L2 learning Japanese. Studies have shown that not only affects learners' linguistic confiden...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether second language writing anxiety and teacher’ communication behavior significantly predict students’ research self-efficacy. working group for the present study, in which quantitative descriptive-predictive design employed, included 187 students enrolled Research 1 2 subjects at UM Digos College. participants answered adapted standard questionna...

This study examined the predictive role of several learner factors in second language (L2) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading: L2 proficiency, motivation, anxiety, and mastery of strategies. Participants were 129 English learners in a comprehensive university in China. Participants read two English texts and were given an unannounced vocabulary test to assess their incidental voc...

Purpose: The present study has three objectives: (1) to explore whether there are statistically significant relationships between Extramural English (EE) engagement, second/additional language (L2) anxiety and communication apprehension, (2) investigate EE engagement predicts these two constructs, (3) reveal possible predictive abilities of different activities.Methodology: This research implem...

The present study investigated test-taking motivation in L2 listening testing context by applying Expectancy-Value Theory as the framework. Specifically, this study was intended to examine the complex relationships among expectancy, importance, interest, listening anxiety, listening metacognitive awareness, and listening test score using data from a large-scale and high-stakes language test amo...