The possibility that anxiety interferes with language learning has long interested scholars, teachers, and learners¶
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q1 i? The possibility that anxiety interferes with language learning has long interested scholars, language teachers, and language learners themselves, and it is intuitive that anxiety would inhibit L2 learning and/or production. → Elaine K. Horwitz 2010
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Elaine K. Horwitz 2010¶
Elaine K. Horwitz. (2010). Foreign and second language anxiety. Language Teaching, Volume 43, Issue 2, April 2010, pp. 154-167. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026144480999036X
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Opening statement of the article's extract framing the field's long-standing interest in anxiety and language learning. The article offers this as framing intuition ('It is intuitive that anxiety would inhibit the learning and/or production of a second language'), not as a tested finding in this piece.
"The possibility that anxiety interferes with language learning has long interested scholars, language teachers, and language learners themselves"
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Related Claims¶
- L2 anxiety is negatively correlated with L2 achievement, with a mean correlation of r = −.36 across 216 effect sizes — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
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The possibility that anxiety interferes with language learning has long interested scholars, teachers, and learners |
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The possibility that anxiety interferes with language learning has long interested scholars, teachers, and learners |
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