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Article: Foreign language anxiety and student attrition.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Abstract
This study examined the role of anxiety in predicting student attrition in foreign language courses at the college level. Participants were 259 students enrolled in Spanish, French, German, or Japanese introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses at a mid-southern university. Anxiety was assessed using three scales, namely, the Input Anxiety Scale, the Processing Anxiety Scale, and the Output Anxiety Scale, which measure how anxious students feel at the input, processing, and output stages of the foreign language learning process, respectively. Findings revealed that students who dropped out of their foreign language classes tended to report ...