Gender differences in the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale

System

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 462-471

  Park, Gi Pyo ^a   French, Brian F ^b  

^a Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Differential item functioning (DIF); Fairness; Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS); Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878939035     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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