A Reevaluation of the Role of Anxiety: Self‐Efficacy, Anxiety, and Their Relation to Reading and Listening Proficiency

By Nicole Mills, Frank Pajares, Carol A. Herron. 2006

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

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Effects of Language Anxiety on Three Proficiency‐Level Courses of Spanish as a Foreign Language (2009, background): “The effect of anxiety on learning an L2/ foreign language is complex and still under study (P. Bailey et al., 1999; Cheng et al., 1999; Horwitz, 2000; MacIntyre, 1999; Onwuegbuzie et al., 1999; Onwuegbuzie, Bailey, & Daley, 2000a, 2000b; Oxford, 1999).”
ACADEMIC BUOYANCY (2018, methodology): “This scale was adapted from Mills et al. (2006) to measure learners’ beliefs and confidence in their capabilities as L2 users.”
The Effects of Foreign Language Anxiety and Test Anxiety on Foreign Language Test Performance (2014, neutral): “…learning context (Baily, 1983; MacIntyre & Gardner, 1994; Tobias, 1986), much of the data is in favor of debilitative anxiety (Aida, 1994; Elkhafaifi, 2005; Gardner, Tremblay, & Masgoret, 1997; MacIntyre & Gardner, 1989; MacIntyre et al., 1997; Mills et al., 2006; Philips, 1992; Young, 1986).”
Self-efficacy and academic listening (2011, background): “Bandura (1997, as cited in Mills et al, 2006: 279) argues that anxiety is linked to low self-efficacy, in that ‘it is one’s sense of efficacy to control or dismiss apprehensive emotions that accounts for anxiety’.”
Learner Attitudes, Perceptions, and Beliefs in Language Learning (2012, background): “Mills, Pajares, and Herron (2006) suggested, in describing the limitations of their own study, that self-report instruments of this type hold an inherent danger in that “participants sometimes report what they believe is expected, rather than their true beliefs.””
The Relationship Between Reading Self-efficacy Beliefs, Reading Strategy Use and Reading Comprehension Level of Iranian EFL Learners (2012, background): “Milles, Pajares and Herron (2006) studied the relationship between selfefficacy, anxiety, and French proficiency in reading and listening. In addition, Goonsooly & Ellahi (2011), and Chen (2007), indicated that EFL learners’ self-efficacy is an important factor in the achievement of higher scores in”
Anxiety and non-anxiety in a distance language learning environment: The distance factor as a modifying influence (2007, positive): “Strategies to combat anxiety need to be complemented by those that foster self-eﬃ-485 cacy, which might actually reduce the need for anxiety-reducing strategies (Mills et al., 2006).”