Investigating Foreign Language Anxiety

Lessons for Research into Individual Differences
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-55846-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 271 g

Reihe: Second Language Learning and Teaching

The introduction and a theoretical summary of language anxiety research (Chapter 1) are followed by four chapters:  Chapter 2 presents a meta-analysis of the widely used Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale’s (Horwitz, et al., 1986) factorial structure; Chapter 3 reports on a validation study of the Hungarian version of MacIntyre and Gardner’s (1994) Input, Process, and Output Anxiety Scales; Chapter 4 presents the development of a skills-based anxiety questionnaire through a three-phased study consisting of an exploratory qualitative phase as well as two quantitative phases using Rasch analysis; and Chapter 5 focuses on empirical approaches available for tapping into the dynamic change of this emotion, including the idiodynamic method and quantitative analyses such as latent growth curve modeling and dynamic cluster analysis.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piniel, Katalin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Theorization of foreign language anxiety.- 3. A meta-analysis of research using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) (Horwitz et al., 1986).- 4. Validating the Hungarian Input-Process-Output Anxiety questionnaire.- 5. Skills related language anxiety – Scale development.- 6. Complex Dynamic Systems Theory perspective on language anxiety.-7. Conclusion.