Language Learning and Perfectionism: Anxious and Non-Anxious Language Learners' Reactions to Their Own Oral Performance.

By T. Gregersen, E. Horwitz. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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The L2 motivational self system, L2 anxiety, and motivated behavior: A structural equation modeling approach (2010, result): “…ﬁndings of the previous studies in personality psychology (e.g., Higgins, 1987; Leary, 2007; Carver et al., 1999), but also supports some views of anxiety as a characteristic of those “who are highly concerned about the impressions that others tend to form of them” (Gregersen and Horwitz, 2002).”
An Exploration of Chinese EFL Learners' Unwillingness to Communicate and Foreign Language Anxiety (2008, background): “Like individuals with communication apprehension, people who fear negative evaluation rarely initiate conversation and interact minimally (Gregersen & Horwitz, 2002).”
EFL Speaking Anxiety among Senior High School Students and Policy Recommendations (2015, background): “…from others as one of the strong and major sources of language anxiety (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986; Young, 1991; Aydın, 1999; Kitano, 2001; Gregersen & Horwitz, 2002; Woodrow, 2006; Liu, 2007; Williams, & Andrade, 2008; Aydın, 2008; Liu & Jackson, 2008; Tsiplakides & Keramida, 2009;…”
Speaking Anxiety in English Conversation Classrooms among Thai Students. (2016, background): “This finding corroborates those of Inthakanok (2009-2011) and Heng et al. (2012), but it is different from what ÖztÜrk and GÜrbÜz (2014) and Agudo (2013) have found.”
An Investigation on the Language Anxiety and Fear of Negative Evaluation among Turkish EFL Learners (2008, background): “Besides, some other ways to alleviate anxiety are creating a supportive learning environment, explaining students their mistakes, developing realistic expectations and setting time limits (Gregersen and Horwitz, 2002).”
What are the Main Sources of Turkish EFL Students' Anxiety in Oral Practice?. (2010, methodology): “Therefore, it is strongly recommended that the teachers should take necessary precautions which reduce the anxiety level of their students (Gregersen & Horwitz, 2002).”
Effects of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Sociobiographical Variables on Communicative Anxiety and Foreign Language Anxiety among Adult Multilinguals: A Review and Empirical Investigation (2008, background): “Gregersen and Horwitz (2002) audio-recorded comments of anxious and nonanxious language learners as they watched themselves interact in a videotaped oral interview. The anxious learners were found to set higher personal performance standards, tended to procrastinate, were more fearful of evaluation,”
Caring and emotional labour: Language teachers’ engagement with anxious learners in private language school classrooms (2019, background): “Teachers’ working conditions, their burdensome time schedules, along with caring for their students can be seen to result in emotional labour for themselves as well as on manageable levels of teacher anxiety (see also Gregersen & Horwitz, 2002; Horwitz, 1996), which teachers explicitly commented on.”
Effects of Language Anxiety on Three Proficiency‐Level Courses of Spanish as a Foreign Language (2009, background): “Given the different views on language anxiety, some studies have concluded that high anxiety usually has a negative effect on the language acquisition process (e.g., Campbell & Ortiz, 1991; Gregersen, 2003; Gregersen & Horwitz, 2002; Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986; Horwitz & Young, 1991).”
ANXIETY AND THE TRUE BEGINNER-FALSE BEGINNER DYNAMIC IN BEGINNING FRENCH AND SPANISH CLASSES (2005, background): “Anxious feelings can relate to personality traits, such as perfectionism (Gregersen & Horwitz, 2002; Price, 1991), lack of self-confidence especially in comparison to peers (Cheng, 2002; Clément, Dörnyei, & Noels, 1994; Kitano, 2001), test anxiety (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986), fear of public…”