Anxiety and predictors of performance in the foreign language classroom

System

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-36

  Matsuda, Sae ^a   Gobel, Peter ^a  

^a KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classroom anxiety; Foreign language anxiety; Gender; Individual differences; Overseas experience; Predictors of performance; Proficiency; Reading anxiety; Self confidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347759928     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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