Do students believe that anxiety hinders language acquisition?
2. Which factors do students believe contribute to anxiety? 3. Which factors do students believe may help to reduce anxiety? 4. How is anxiety manifested in the students? 5. Do students believe any one of the three languages being investigated to be more anxiety provoking than another? Students from a diverse set of language classrooms (French, German, and Spanish) were interviewed using a set of 10 questions developed to elicit answers to the 5 research questions. The participants also completed the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) developed by Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope (1986) before the audiotaped interview began. The response of each participant to every question on the scale was entered into a database, number coded to assure confidentiality, and later compared with the qualitative narrative as a validity check. The FLCAS is a 33-item, self-report measure, scored on a five-point Likert Scale, ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree, and was developed to ca
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