Abstract
This study examined Chinese university learners’ anxiety in German language classrooms in at-home and study-abroad contexts. About 138 learners from a university in Beijing (at-home context) and 91...
Highlights
Anxiety, a feeling of uneasy suspense (Rachman, 1998), has been extensively researched from various theoretical perspectives and proved to be closely related to second/foreign language (SL/ FL) learning outcomes
The major findings were (a) around one third of the learners in both contexts reported feeling anxious in German language class; (b) listening, speaking and writing were reported by both groups to be their sources of anxiety in class, and (c) differences existed between the at-home and SA students in anxiety level, causes for anxiety and relationship between anxiety and German test performance
The study revealed that (a) around one third of the learners in both contexts reported feeling anxious in German language class; (b) listening, speaking and writing were sources of anxiety in class for both groups, and (c) differences existed between the at-home and SA students in anxiety level, causes for anxiety and relationship between anxiety and German test performance
Summary
A feeling of uneasy suspense (Rachman, 1998), has been extensively researched from various theoretical perspectives and proved to be closely related to second/foreign language (SL/ FL) learning outcomes. Her research interests mainly include EFL teaching and learning, reticence and anxiety, EFL writing, and International education She is working on anxiety and motivation of Chinese college students when learning foreign languages and of international students when learning Chinese as a second/foreign language. The present paper reports on the results of a study on Chinese’ college students’ anxiety when learning German as a foreign language, which often happens to learners of second/foreign languages. This questionnaire intended to gather such information about the participants as gender, age, discipline, length of stay in Germany, and time spent in learning German.
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