Anxiety in Chinese EFL students at different proficiency levels

By Meihua Liu. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology

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The relationship between second language competence and willingness to communicate: the moderating effect of foreign language anxiety (2020, background): “Furthermore, most of the research on Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ FLA and WTC has been conducted in FL classroom contexts (Jiang and Dewaele, 2019; Li, Jiang, and Dewaele, 2018; Liu, 2006, 2018; Liu and Jackson, 2008).”
Developing EFL Learner’s Speaking Ability, Accuracy and Fluency (2016, background): “Most of EFL learners are stressed out in class (Liu, 2006) especially when they are called on to speak in class without any preparation.”
Reticence in Chinese EFL Students at Varied Proficiency Levels. (2009, background): “Cet article porte sur une étude de la réticence dans des cours d’ALE dans une grande université à Beijing.”
An Exploration of Foreign Language Anxiety and English Learning Motivation (2011, methodology): “Thus, many choose to remain silent in class and thus their oral proficiency in the target language just falls down or becomes lower, as found in Liu’s [12, 13] studies.”
Foreign language anxiety of students studying English Language and Literature: A Sample from Turkey (2016, neutral): “Rev. Elaldı 225 Desrochers and Gardner 1981; Elkhafaifi, 2005; Gardner et al., 1977; Gardner et al.,1979; Gardner et al., 1997; Hismanoglu, 2013; Liu, 2006; Samimy, 1994).”
The Correlation among EFL Learners’ Test Anxiety, Foreign Language Anxiety and Language Achievement (2016, neutral): “This finding of present study is also in line with previous related studies (Horwitz 1986; Saito & Samimy, 1986; Gardner, Lalonde, Moorcroft, & Evers, 1987; MacIntyre & Gardner, 1989; Aida, 1994; Gardner, 1997; Cheng, Horwitz, & Schallert, 1999; Horwitz, 2001; Dalkılıç, 2001; Park & Lee, 2005; Liu, ”
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety of Arab learners of English: The effect of personality, linguistic and sociobiographical variables (2015, background): “…proficiency in the FL and self-reported course grades are usually found to be the strongest predictors of FLA or FLCA (Arnaiz & Guillén, 2012; Horwitz, 2001; Liu, 2006; Liu & Chen, 2013; MacIntyre & Gardner, 1994; Shao, Yu & Ji, 2013; Sparks & Ganschow, 2007; Thompson & Lee, 2013, 2014).”
The Relationship between English Language Learner Characteristics and Online Self-regulation: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach (2020, background): “There are three mainstreams of anxiety research, namely state anxiety, trait anxiety and situation-specific anxiety [45].”
Second Language Anxiety and Distance Language Learning (2009, background): “…anxiety has been shown to be higher for beginners than for experienced language learners (Frantzen & Magnan, 2005; Gardner & MacIntyre, 1993; Liu, 2006) and more influential on academic performance than in the case of more experienced students (Saito & Samimy, 1996; Samimy & Tabuse, 1992).”
Anxiety and Second/Foreign Language Learning Revisited (2008, background): “With this pressure, learners are more likely to experience anxiety in the classroom (Liu, 2006).”
Developing Accuracy and Fluency in Spoken English of Chinese EFL Learners. (2014, background): “Numerous of Chinese EFL students are rather nervous in class (Liu, 2006), especially when they are asked to speak in class without any preparation.”
The link between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety, Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity and Self-rated English proficiency among Chinese learners (2013, result): “The finding of a significant relationship between Self-rated proficiency and both FLCA and SLTA reflects findings previously reported in the literature (Chapelle & Roberts, 1986; Kim, 2000; Liu, 2006; MacIntyre, Clément, & Noels, 1997).”