Language Anxiety: Differentiating Writing and Speaking Components

1999/09/01 by Yuh‐show Cheng, Elaine K. Horwitz, Diane L. Schallert · 11 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies #Second Language Acquisition and Learning

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/0023-8333.00095

Abstract

This study investigated the links between second language classroom anxiety and second language writing anxiety as well as their associations with second language speaking and writing achievement. The results indicate that second language classroom anxiety, operationalized by Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope's Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale, and second language writing anxiety, measured by a modified second language version of Daly and Miller's Writing Apprehension Test, are two related but independent constructs. The findings suggest that second language classroom anxiety is a more general type of anxietyabout learning a second language with a strong speaking anxiety element, whereas second language writing anxiety is a language‐skill‐specific anxiety. Nevertheless, low self‐confidence seems to be an important component of both anxiety constructs.

Citations

• Language Anxiety: Its Relationship to Other Anxieties and to Processing in Native and Second Languages*
• Methods and Results in the Study of Anxiety and Language Learning: A Review of the Literature*

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