On the Psychological Nature of Language Anxiety
https://doi.org/10.21603/sibscript-2023-25-2-258-269
Abstract
The study featured two models of language anxiety. The authors identified the psychological nature of this phenomenon by analyzing its relationships with ambiguity tolerance. The study involved the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale developed by E. K. Horwitz, M. B. Horwitz, and J. Cope, improved by Z. Na, and translated by the authors, as well as E. N. Osin’s General Tolerance for Ambiguity Scale. The study involved 102 students majoring in linguistics. For statistical processing, the authors employed such methods as internal consistency assessment (Cronbach's alpha), descriptive statistics, Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test, Student's t-criterion, Mann-Whitney U-test, Kruskal- Wallis H-test, Pearson's coefficient, and Spearman's coefficient. The students demonstrated statistically significant gender differences in individual components of language anxiety and ambiguity tolerance. The attitudes to complex tasks and uncertain situations proved to be the most significant parameters of ambiguity tolerance in the context of understanding the psychological nature of language anxiety.
Keywords
language anxiety,
ambiguity tolerance,
Cronbach's alpha,
correlation analysis,
gender differences,
language groups
Supporting agencies: The research was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 20-013-00282а "Producing a toolkit to assess development of functional bilingual characteristics in students majoring in foreign languages"
About the Authors
Alexander Ye. Fedorovsky
Tomsk State University
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Tomsk
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The author declared no potential conflict of interests regarding the research, authorship, and / or publication of this article
Inna V. Atamanova
Tomsk State University
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Tomsk
Scopus Author ID: 57211394316
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The author declared no potential conflict of interests regarding the research, authorship, and / or publication of this article
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