An investigation into foreign language anxiety (FLA) among students at the Technical Faculty in Bor
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Date
2020
Authors
Stevanović, Slavica
Vasković, Sandra
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Volume Title
Publisher
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology
Source
Belgrade English language and literature studies BELLS90 Proceedings - International Conference to Mark the 90th Anniversary of the English Department, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
Volume
1
Issue
Abstract
Despite the fact that foreign language anxiety (FLA) has attracted much interest over the last thirty years and that FLA has also been recognized and documented as one of the factors affecting learner performance, this aspect of EFL has been disregarded in Serbia, and there are no studies that we are aware of concerning this phenomenon. This paper is aimed at presenting findings on FLA of 101 first-year students of the Technical Faculty in Bor, Serbia, and contributing to the existing literature on FLA, as well as at confirming the reliability of Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (FCLAS) as an instrument to measure potential anxiety in EFL classroom. The theoretical objective of this study was to examine Horwitz et al.’s model of FCLAS as well as to produce an adapted version of FCLAS suitable for Serbian learners’ attitude towards FLA. The adapted version of FCLAS was administered to 101 non-major English students of the Technical Faculty in Bor, and the findings are presented in this paper.
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FLA, English as a foreign language, university students, adapted FLCAS
Citation
DOI
10.18485/bells90.2020.1.ch22
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978-86-6153-616-8
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