The anxiety-proficiency relationship and the stability of anxiety: The case of Chinese university learners of English and Japanese

dc.contributor.authorJin, Yinxing
dc.contributor.authorde Bot, Kees
dc.contributor.authorKeijzer, Merel
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-11T11:09:46Z
dc.date.available2015-05-11T11:09:46Z
dc.date.issued2015-03
dc.description.abstractAdopting a longitudinal design, this study investigates the effects of foreign language anxiety on foreign language proficiency over time within English and Japanese learning contexts. It also explores the stability of anxiety in English and Japanese over time and the stability of anxiety across English and Japanese. Chinese university students (N=146), who were simultaneously learning Japanese and English, participated in this study. Data were collected twice over a 2-month interval, using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale, the English Proficiency Scale, and the Japanese Proficiency Scale. Results showed that anxiety changes had a significantly negative, but weak, correlation with the development of overall proficiency and the proficiency in sub- skills such as reading or speaking, for both English and Japanese, suggesting the interference of anxiety with proficiency levels. Anxiety in Japanese tended to decrease significantly over time, but no significant change was found for English. Furthermore, no significant difference between anxiety in Japanese and English was found at either testing time.pl_PL
dc.description.articlenumber3pl_PL
dc.description.journaltitleStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching,pl_PL
dc.description.number1pl_PL
dc.description.pageof41pl_PL
dc.description.pageto63pl_PL
dc.description.volume5pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015, vol. 5, no. 1, pp.41-63pl_PL
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2015.5.1.3
dc.identifier.issn2083-5205
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/12984
dc.language.isoenpl_PL
dc.publisherZakład Filologii Angielskiej Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kaliszupl_PL
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl_PL
dc.subjectoreign language anxiety, foreign language proficiency, stability, Chinese university students, longitudinal studypl_PL
dc.titleThe anxiety-proficiency relationship and the stability of anxiety: The case of Chinese university learners of English and Japanesepl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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