Foreign language anxiety and language performance: A study of learner anxiety in beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level college students of Japanese

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 239-249

  Saito, Yoshiko ^a,b   Samimy, Keiko K ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 33748630256     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1996.tb02330.x     Document Type: Article

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