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Testing Effects of Foreign Language Listening Anxiety on Chinese University Students' English Listening Test Performance

The present research explored how foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA) affected Chinese university students' English listening test performance and how proficiency and gender mediated the effects of FLLA on the latter. Two different populations from two universities in China answered the 2...

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Autores principales: Liu, Meihua, Xu, Hongliang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8310933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322069
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.701926
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description The present research explored how foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA) affected Chinese university students' English listening test performance and how proficiency and gender mediated the effects of FLLA on the latter. Two different populations from two universities in China answered the 20-item Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Scale (FLLAS) as well as a demographic questionnaire and took an English listening test. Analyses of the collected data revealed the following major findings: (a) Five latent factors underlay the FLLAS, (b) when working alone, FLLA significantly negatively predicted students' English listening test performance, and (c) when working with proficiency and gender, English proficiency level, gender and FLLAS2 (proficiency in English listening) significantly predicted students' English listening test performance. These findings confirm the negative effects of FLLA on students' English listening test performance. They also indicate that English proficiency and gender mediate FLLA's effects on the latter, with English proficiency not only directly but also indirectly affecting the latter.
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spelling pubmed-83109332021-07-27 Testing Effects of Foreign Language Listening Anxiety on Chinese University Students' English Listening Test Performance Liu, Meihua Xu, Hongliang Front Psychol Psychology The present research explored how foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA) affected Chinese university students' English listening test performance and how proficiency and gender mediated the effects of FLLA on the latter. Two different populations from two universities in China answered the 20-item Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Scale (FLLAS) as well as a demographic questionnaire and took an English listening test. Analyses of the collected data revealed the following major findings: (a) Five latent factors underlay the FLLAS, (b) when working alone, FLLA significantly negatively predicted students' English listening test performance, and (c) when working with proficiency and gender, English proficiency level, gender and FLLAS2 (proficiency in English listening) significantly predicted students' English listening test performance. These findings confirm the negative effects of FLLA on students' English listening test performance. They also indicate that English proficiency and gender mediate FLLA's effects on the latter, with English proficiency not only directly but also indirectly affecting the latter. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8310933/ /pubmed/34322069 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.701926 Text en Copyright © 2021 Liu and Xu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Testing Effects of Foreign Language Listening Anxiety on Chinese University Students' English Listening Test Performance
title_sort testing effects of foreign language listening anxiety on chinese university students' english listening test performance
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8310933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322069
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.701926
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