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Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics","Education & Educational Research
Previous research has shown language anxiety to be associated with bro
ad-based indices of language achievement, such as course grades. This
study examined some of the more specific cognitive processes that may
be involved in language acquisition in terms of a three-stage model of
learning: Input, Processing, and Output. These stages were represente
d in a set of nine tasks that were employed to isolate and measure the
language acquisition stages. A new anxiety scale was also developed t
o measure anxiety at each of the stages. Generally, significant correl
ations were obtained between the stage-specific anxiety scales and sta
ge-specific tasks (e.g., output anxiety with output tasks) suggesting
that the effects of language anxiety maybe both pervasive and subtle.