EFL Teachers' Apprehension and L2 Students' Classroom Engagement

Teachers' apprehension is an indispensable part of the educational context since it impacts the amount to which students are engaged in class activities. Although several studies have been carried out considering the role of students' stress in their engagement, it seems extremely vital to...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 758629
Main Author Li, Xiaodong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frontiers Media S.A 29.09.2021
Subjects
apprehension
class activities
classroom engagement
communication apprehension
English as a Foreign language
Psychology
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Summary:Teachers' apprehension is an indispensable part of the educational context since it impacts the amount to which students are engaged in class activities. Although several studies have been carried out considering the role of students' stress in their engagement, it seems extremely vital to conduct such studies among teachers to measure the link between these two variables. In this study, the author has made endeavors to define one of the apprehension's categories named communication apprehension and the antecedents of teachers' apprehension. Then classroom engagement is discussed. Following that, the relevance between the two variables of this research is discussed. Finally, both implications and suggestions for further studies are dealt with.
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Reviewed by: Jian Fan, Henan University, China; Liqaa Habeb Al-Obaydi, University of Diyala, Iraq
This article was submitted to Educational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Ali Derakhshan, Golestan University, Iran
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.758629