Research article summary (published 30 May 1999):

Relationships between anxiety and achievement at three stages of learning a foreign language.

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Anxiety in foreign language courses has been conceptualized as occurring at each of three stages of input, processing, and output. Specifically, input anxiety refers to the learner's apprehension when receiving information in the foreign language; processing anxiety refers to the apprehension experienced by learners when learning and thinking in the foreign language; and output anxiety refers to the apprehension experienced when speaking or writing in the foreign language. The present purpose was to investigate the relationship between achievement and anxiety at each of these three stages of learning a foreign language. Participants were 224 college students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, enrolled in Spanish, French, or German classes. Small but significant negative associations were found between achievement in the foreign language and scores on the Input Scale, the Processing Scale, and the Output Scale. These indicate educators should consider more than just the output stage of learning in foreign language classes.

Author information

Author/s: Onwuegbuzie, A J (AJ); Bailey, P (P); Daley, C E (CE);

Affiliation: Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Valdosta State University, GA 31698, USA. TONWUEGB(-atsign-)VALDOSTA.EDU

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Perceptual and motor skills (Percept Mot Skills), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1999-Jun; vol 88 (issue 3 Pt 2) : pp 1085-93

Dates: Created 1999/10/19; Completed 1999/10/19; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 10485086, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Achievement Anxiety - psychology Female Humans Language

Learning Male Models, Psychological Multilingualism Students - psychology

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