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Outside-Classroom Foreign Language Anxiety and Speaking Skill in Monolingual and Bilingual Learners of English as a Foreign Language

The first part of this paper informs the reader about the acceptance of the role of affective factors in foreign language learning, explains the approaches to foreign language anxiety (FLA) as well as the reasons why it was necessary to research FLA when English as a foreign language (EFL) is used outside classroom. An additional aim of the first part of the paper is to inform the reader about the previous research of the differences in affective factors between monolingual and bilingual students in learning EFL. The second part of the paper gives an account of the process of the development of a scale for measuring FLA outside foreign language classroom. It was a two-stage process (1. analysis of the compositions where 432 langauge learners from teenagers to adults described their experience in using English outside classroom, 200 statments indicating 16 various manifestations of FLA were recorded ; 2. Those statements formed a questionnarie that was used in a survey of 1026 learners of EFL ; Factor analysis extracted two factors and a Scale for Measuring Foreign Language Anxiety Outside Classroom was formed). This new scale was later used to research the difference in FLA between monolingual (71) and bilingual (57) primary school students in Croatia and to explore its realationship with the achievement in speaking skill in EFL. The achievement in speaking skill was measured by using an adapted version of the speaking test for Cambridge First Preliminary Exam (Fried-Booth 1996) Bilingual participants in the study were mainly members of the Czech and Italian national minorities in Croatia. The two groups are compared through the values of central tendency and variability. This is followed by an analysis of the t-test results and correlation coefficients between FLA outside classroom and the achievement in speaking of EFL.

foreign language anxiety ; classroom anxiety ; development of an instrument ; speaking skill ; monolingual learners of EFL ; bilingual learners of EFL

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