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Changes in foreign language anxiety: A classroom perspective
Author(s) -
Kruk Mariusz
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/ijal.12182
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , psychology , anxiety , qualitative research , mathematics education , foreign language anxiety , foreign language , qualitative property , pedagogy , medical education , sociology , medicine , computer science , social science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , machine learning
This article reports the findings of a classroom‐based study whose main purpose was to investigate the changes in the levels of FLA over the course of one semester. In addition, the study sought to understand causes of such changes. The participants were 52 Polish senior high school students, aged 17–19, who were all learners of English. The study encompassed 121 naturally occurring English lessons. The data were gathered by means of questionnaires, interviews and lesson plans. The collected data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative and qualitative results of the study provided evidence for the dynamicity of FLA throughout the semester including changes during single lessons and from one lesson to the next. Some factors responsible for such variations were also identified.