Questioning the Stability of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Motivation Across Different Classroom Contexts

• Published in: Foreign language annals Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 138 - 157
• Main Author: Kim, Sung-Yeon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.03.2009; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Subjects: affective variables; Anxiety; College Students; Colleges & universities; Conversational Language Courses; Cultural differences; EFL; English (Second Language); English as a second language; Foreign Countries; foreign language classroom; Foreign language instruction; Foreign language learning; Goal Orientation; Korea; Language instruction; Language Skills; Learning Motivation; Learning Processes; Motivation; Multivariate Analysis; R&D; Reading Instruction; Research & development; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Second language teachers; Studies; Teaching Methods; Writing Apprehension; South Korea; United States > US; Texas

: This study examined whether foreign language learner anxiety and motivational goal orientations remained stable across two different classroom contexts: a reading course and a conversation course. The researcher measured anxiety and four types of motivational goal orientations by surveying 59 Kore...