A reevaluation of the role of anxiety: Self-efficacy, anxiety, and their relation to reading and listening proficiency

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 276-295

  Mills, Nicole ^a   Pajares, Frank ^b   Herron, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Listening; Proficiency; Reading; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748944659     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2006.tb02266.x     Document Type: Article

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