Relationship of L1 Skills and L2 Aptitude to L2 Anxiety on the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale

Language Learning

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 870-895

  Sparks, Richard L ^a   Patton, Jon ^b  

^a College of Mount St Joseph ^*  (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Full information maximum likelihood (FIML); L1 skills; L2 anxiety; L2 aptitude; Longitudinal; Path analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887410387     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lang.12025     Document Type: Article

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