Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety

1986/06/01 by Elaine K. Horwitz, ELAINE K. HORWITZ, MICHAEL B. HORWITZ +2 · 4,396 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Citation #Computer science #EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning #Foreign language #Linguistics #Mathematics education #Philosophy #Psychology #World Wide Web

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.1986.tb05256.x

published in Modern Language Journal 70(2), 125-132 (Wiley)

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