Anxiety about foreign language among students in French, Spanish, and German classes.
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether anxiety reported by students while studying foreign language courses in college was similar for 253 college students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, who were enrolled in either Spanish, French, or German classes. Analysis indicated no...
| Published in: | Psychological Reports Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 1007 - 1011 |
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Ammons Scientific, Ltd.
Jun98
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