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High School Spanish Students and Foreign Language Reading Anxiety: Déjà Vu All over Again All over Again
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Sparks, Richard L.; Luebbers, Julie; Castaneda, Martha; Patton, Jon – Modern Language Journal, 2018
A unique anxiety for foreign language (L2) learning has been hypothesized to explain students' problems with language learning. However, L2 anxiety instruments have been challenged on the grounds that they reflect students' language learning ability and/or perceptions of their language learning skills. In this study, 266 U.S. high school students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Spanish, Anxiety, Second Language Learning
Individual Differences in L2 Achievement Mirror Individual Differences in L1 Skills and L2 Aptitude: Crosslinguistic Transfer of L1 to L2 Skills
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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Luebbers, Julie – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Studies with U.S. secondary second language (L2) learners have revealed individual differences (IDs) in first language (L1) skills and L2 aptitude and shown that these IDs are related to L2 achievement and proficiency. In this study, U.S. students were administered measures of L1 achievement, L1 cognitive processing, and L2 aptitude; followed…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Low Achievement, Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning
L2 Anxiety and the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale: Listening to the Evidence
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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Luebbers, Julie – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
Second language (L2) educators have proposed a unique anxiety for general L2 learning and an anxiety specific to L2 reading. Since the early 1990s, the L2 anxiety concept has been challenged on theoretical and empirical grounds. In this investigation, U.S. high school L2 learners were administered the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS)…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension