Reducing the Impact of Social Anxiety on Group-based Learning Activities in the Language Classroom

项目第一年的重点是调查小组工作中的焦虑程度和这种情况下焦虑的来源，以便为小组工作中衡量焦虑的量表的开发提供信息，这一阶段按计划进行。在2022年春季和秋季学期期间，使用现有的沟通理解措施进行了初步探索性研究。结果显示，大量学习者在小组或结对学习时感到不安，并揭示了小组学习中焦虑的一些来源。对最初调查参与者的后续访谈有助于进一步澄清这些焦虑的来源，并增加结果的深度。这一阶段的结果目前正在准备出版。此外，还发表了一篇关于焦虑对小组工作的影响的报告，并发表了一篇关于日本大学英语学习者使用社交焦虑测量的有效性的论文。

The first year of the project was focused on investigating the extent of anxiety in group work and the sources of anxiety in this context in order to inform the development of a scale to measure anxiety in group work and this phase progressed as planned. An initial exploratory study using an existing measure of communication apprehension was conducted during the Spring and Fall semesters of 2022. The results revealed a large number of learners experience unease when working in groups or pairs and uncovered a number of sources of anxiety in group work. Follow-up interviews with participants in the initial survey helped to further clarify these sources of anxiety and add depth to the results. The results of this phase are presently being prepared for publication. In addition, a presentation on the impact of anxiety on group work was given, and a paper on the validity of a measure of social anxiety for use with Japanese university-level English learners was published.