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- Title
Modeling skill-based foreign language learning anxieties as a single construct and testing its predictive aspect on foreign language classroom anxiety.
- Authors
Öztürk, Gökhan; Doğan Şahin, Murat; Ölmezer Öztürk, Elçin; Elmas, Belgin
- Abstract
The aim of the current study was two-fold: i) to investigate whether four skill-based foreign language anxiety scales used in the literature can be confirmed as a single construct, and ii) to explore to what extent this potential single construct can explain foreign language classroom anxiety. The participants included 385 Turkish EFL learners in a university context and data collection instruments were four skill-based anxiety scales and the foreign language classroom anxiety scale (FLCAS). The results of the correlated traits and second order analysis revealed that four skill-based anxieties were confirmed as a single scale, referred to here as the skill-based foreign language learning anxiety scale (SB-FLLAS), measuring a latent variable, foreign language learning anxiety (FLLA). In addition, the SB-FLLAS explained these four anxieties with a high predictive degree on the FLCAS at 88%, demonstrated through structural equation modelling. The current study presents this new practical scale, which could be used in the measurement of skill-based anxieties, and suggests several practical and research implications for foreign language anxiety.
- Subjects
FOREIGN language education; LANGUAGE &; languages; ANXIETY; CLASSROOM environment; ACQUISITION of data; PREDICTIVE tests; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; EDUCATION research; LATENT variables; FOREIGN Language Classroom Anxiety Scale; PROBLEM-based learning; ANXIETY testing
- Publication
Educación XX1, 2022, Vol 25, Issue 2, p337
- ISSN
1139-613X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5944/educxx1.30453