Effects of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Sociobiographical Variables on Communicative Anxiety and Foreign Language Anxiety among Adult Multilinguals: A Review and Empirical Investigation

By Jean–Marc Dewaele, K. V. Petrides, Adrian Furnham. 2008

474 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Language and Linguistics

1. Jean–Marc Dewaele
2. Chengchen Li
3. Li Wei
4. Junkyu Lee
5. Amy S. Thompson
6. Tsui Shan Ip
7. Taghreed M. Al-Saraj
8. Yeşim Sevinç

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Jean–Marc Dewaele
2. Chengchen Li
3. Tsui Shan Ip
4. Taghreed M. Al-Saraj
5. Junkyu Lee
6. Amy S. Thompson
7. Li Wei
8. Yeşim Sevinç

In Social Psychology

1. Jean–Marc Dewaele
2. Chengchen Li
3. Li Wei
4. Taghreed M. Al-Saraj
5. Junkyu Lee
6. Amy S. Thompson
7. Rosemary Wilson
8. Tsui Shan Ip

Citations in the corpus

• Emotion as the amplifier and the primary motive: Some theories of emotion with relevance to language learning (2015, background): “Other factors in lower anxiety and stronger confidence were younger age of acquisition of the foreign language, stronger socialization in that language, higher self-perceived proficiency, use of the language outside the classroom, communication with a larger network of people, and knowledge of more ”
• Multilingualism, empathy and multicompetence (2012, background): “It was suggested that multilinguals are more experienced communicators, able to overcome communicative difficulties, and that their increased communicative confidence translates in lower levels of FLA (Dewaele et al., 2008).”
• Anxiety and EFL: does multilingualism matter? (2013, methodology): “From previous research (Dewaele 2007, 2010; Dewaele, Petrides, and Furnham 2008), it would be expected that those learners with higher levels of English would have lower levels of English anxiety.”
• The effect of immigration, acculturation and multicompetence on personality profiles of Israeli multilinguals (2014, background): “One possible explanation is that the knowledge of more languages makes foreign language users more confident in their ability to overcome communicative difficulties (Dewaele et al., 2008).”
• The Effects of Foreign Language Anxiety and Test Anxiety on Foreign Language Test Performance (2014, background): “In a large scale study of multilingual adults around the world, Dewaele, Petrides, and Furnham (2008) found that individuals who were younger when they started learning a second or third language had lower levels of language anxiety.”
• The effect of multilingualism/multiculturalism on personality: no gain without pain for Third Culture Kids? (2009, background): “A more consistent effect of multilingualism on FLA emerged in Dewaele (2007b) and Dewaele, Petrides, and Furnham (2008).”
• The use of web questionnaires in second language acquisition and bilingualism research (2010, background): “The resulting database is extremely rich and provided empirical data for a good number of publications (Dewaele, 2004a; 2004b; 2005a; 2005b; 2006a; 2006b; 2007a; 2007b; 2007c; 2008; Dewaele et al., 2008; Pavlenko, 2004; 2005; 2006).”