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• Title:
  Affective and situational correlates of foreign language proficiency: A study of Chinese university learners of English and Japanese
• Creator:
  Jin, Yinxing;
  de Bot, Kees;
  Keijzer, Merel
• Description:
  The study explores the effects of teacher support and student cohesiveness on foreign language (FL) learning outcomes and compares their effect with that of FL anxiety. One hundred and forty-six first-year Chinese undergraduates of Japanese, who were also learning English, participated in two surveys that were administered over a 2-month interval. Data were collected using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986), the Teacher Support Scale (Trickett & Moos, 2002), the Affiliation Scale (Trickett & Moos, 2002), the English Proficiency Scale, and the Japanese Proficiency Scale. It was found that (a) student cohesiveness was a positive predictor of FL proficiency, (b) teacher support, which was positively related to student cohesiveness and negatively to FL anxiety, did not show a direct relationship with FL proficiency, and (c) FL anxiety, which was negatively associated with FL proficiency, showed a better predictive power than student cohesiveness and teacher support.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Yinxing Jin, Kees de Bot, Merel Keijzer
• Date:
  2017.03.31
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2017): Special issue: Individual differences in second language development; 105-125;
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Tom 7 Nr 1 (2017): Special issue: Individual differences in second language development; 105-125;
  2084-1965;
  2083-5205
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/7447/7477
• Subject:
  teacher support;
  student affiliation;
  foreign language anxiety;
  foreign language proficiency
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/7447
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text