Anxiety in foreign language classroom learning experiences is linked with oral performance among Japanese EFL learners¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 2010 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 4 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? In this two-participant case study, anxiety in foreign language classroom learning experiences was linked with oral performance, including worry about speaking being associated with poor oral grades. → Andrew Leichsenring 2010

Evidence¶

Andrew Leichsenring 2010¶

Andrew Leichsenring. (2010). The experiences of anxiety of Japanese EFL learners: A case study. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED537603

q1 · i? · qualitative · r2

Qualitative case study of two Japanese adult EFL learners using reflective journals and one-hour semi-structured interviews; the third research aim investigation showed anxiety "can be linked with oral performance." Student B reported that when she felt worried about speaking English in class she "always got a bad oral performance grade."

"The investigation of this aim showed that anxiety in foreign language classroom learning experiences can be linked with oral performance."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Affect Regulation — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Academic Anxiety — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

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