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Language Anxiety in Efl Testing Situations

Liu, Meihua·2007·ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
DOI 10.2143/itl.153.0.2022821
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Abstract

This paper reports on a study on orai English test anxiety in Chinese undergraduate EFL students at different proficiency levels. Data collected from a 34-item survey observations, and interviews revealed that (1) the majority of the students felt at least somewhat anxious about oral English tests, (2) the more proficient students tended to be less anxious, (3) oral English test anxiety negatively affected students' test performance, (4) a multitude of variables contributed to oral English test anxiety, and (5) most students felt helpless about being anxious about oral English tests. Based on these findings, some suggestions and implications are discussed.

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  • Foreign language anxiety is predominantly debilitating in SL/FL learning.

    “The studies have revealed that foreign language anxiety, though sometimes facilitating [11,12,19,20], is predominantly debilitating in SL/FL learning [2,3,7,9,10,12,15,21].”

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Authors
Liu, M.
Affiliations
Tsinghua University (CN)
Corresponding author
Liu, Meihua
ORCID
Liu, Meihua
Venue
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published
2007
Volume
153
Pages
53-75
ISSN
  • 0019-0810 (ISSN-L)
  • 0019-0829
  • 1783-1490
DOI
10.2143/itl.153.0.2022821
OpenAlex
W298846116
Cited by
15
References
6
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
5.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
ITL Review of Applied Linguistics (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Communication in Education and Healthcare
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
Keywords
language anxiety, Chinese learners of English, proficiency level, test performance, helplessness, oral proficiency testing

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