Examination of Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope's Construct of Foreign Language Anxiety: The Case of Students of Japanese
Examination of Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope's Construct of Foreign Language Anxiety: The Case of Students of Japanese
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霍维茨、霍维茨和科普的外语焦虑建构检验:以日语学生为例
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10.1111/j.1540-4781.1994.tb02026.x
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1994
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Yukie Aida
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Yukie Aida
language anxiety is related to Japanese language learning. It uses Horwitz, Horwitz, and Cope's theoretical model of foreign language anxiety as a research framework. It has been reported that foreign language anxiety is a rather pervasive phenomenon (14; 31; 32; 46; 47; 52). Although language anxiety could be viewed as positive energy (or facilitating anxiety as called by Alpert and Haber) that motivates learners, many language teachers and researchers have been concerned about the possibility that anxiety may function as an affective filter (28), preventing a learner from achieving a high level of proficiency in a foreign language (4; 7; 17; 25; 27; 39; 42; 56; 62). However, most of the research studies have involved Western lan-