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Author Horwitz, Elaine Kolker, 1950-

Title Language anxiety : from theory and research to classroom implications / Elaine K. Horwitz, Dolly J. Young ; foreword by Robert C. Gardner.

Publication Info. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1991]
©1991

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  401.93 H824L    Check Shelf
Description xv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192).
Contents Part I. Anxiety and language leaning. 1. Understanding communication apprehension / John Daly -- 2. The effect of affect on foreign language learning / Thomas Scovel ---- Part II. Language anxiety: conceptualizations and research paradigms. 3. Foreign language classroom anxiety / Elaine K. Horwitz, Michael B. Horwitz, Jo Ann Cope -- 4. Preliminary evidence for the reliability and validity of a foreign language anxiety scale / Elaine K. Horwitz -- 5. Anxiety and second language learning / P.D. MacIntyre, R.C. Gardner ---- Part III. Empirical findings: how language anxiety affrects student performance. 6. Relationship between anxiety and foreign language oral proficiency ratings / Dolly J. Young -- 7. Evaluating student attitudes toward second-language tests / Harold S. Madsen, Bruce L. Brown, Randall L. Jones -- 8. Oral communication apprehension and Hispanics / Hugo Mejías, Ronald L. Applbaum, Susan J. Applbaum, Robert T. Trotter II ---- Part IV. Students' perspectives on language anxiety. 9. The subjective experience of foreign language anxiety / Mary Lou Price -- 10. Affective reactions of foreign language students to natural approach activities and teaching techniques / April S. Koch, Tracy D. Terrell ---- Part V. Teaching strategies: helping learners cope with language anxiety. 11. Relational model for managing second language anxiety / Karen A. Foss, Armeda C. Reitzel -- 12. Dealing with anxiety / David Crookall, Rebecca Oxford ---- Part VI. Program strategies: institutional responses to langugae anxiety. 13. Helping students overcome foreign language anxiety / Christine M. Campbell, José Ortiz -- 14. Foreign language classroom anxiety / Jo Ann Cope Powell.
Summary "Finally a comprehensive discussion of language anxiety, this collection of papers considers the points of view of teachers and students as well as of theorists and researchers. What is language anxiety? How does it affect language learners? How is it related to other types of anxiety? What can teachers and program directors do to minimize language anxiety in their classrooms? These and other issues are addressed in this landmark text." -- Back cover.
Form Also issued online.
Subject Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects.
Second language acquisition.
Psycholinguistics.
Anxiety.
Added Author Young, Dolly J., 1956-
Gardner, Robert C., Foreword.
Other Form: Online version: Horwitz, Elaine Kolker, 1950- Language anxiety. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1991 (OCoLC)556113841
ISBN 0135234654 paperback
9780135234655 paperback
0135237963 case
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