Naslov
Motivation and foreign language anxiety of Croatian learners

Autori
Didović Baranac, Sandra ; Falkoni-Mjehović, Daniela ; Vlahov, Anja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
CIET 2022 : conference proceedings / Buljan Barbača, Domagoja ; Miletić, Marko - Split : Sveučilište u Splitu, 2022, 508-519

ISBN
978-953-7220-70-9

Skup
5th Conference Contemporary Issues in Economics and Technology (CIET 2022)

Mjesto i datum
Valencia, Španjolska, 16.06.2022. - 17.06.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
motivation ; anxiety ; English ; German ; Spanish

Sažetak
This paper aims to provide insight into the motivation and foreign language anxiety of Croatian high-school learners of English, German, and Spanish as foreign languages in a formal Croatian educational context. Two research instruments were applied in the study. The first instrument was a questionnaire used to collect data on participants’ attitudes/motivation for foreign language learning. This instrument was developed in Hungary and validated in Croatia in 2007. The second instrument was the Croatian English as a Foreign Language Anxiety Scale, which was used in Croatia in 2004. The questionnaires were adapted for this study in order to investigate the motivation for learning English/German/Spanish and English/German/Spanish anxiety. The results point to significantly higher levels of motivation for learning English than for learning German and Spanish, and significantly lower English anxiety compared to German and Spanish anxiety. Results of the study suggest that motivation for learning Spanish and German decreases over time. A statistically significant negative correlation between motivation and anxiety was established in all groups. The findings of this comparative study will enable foreign language teachers to gain an insight into the importance of motivation and foreign language anxiety as important individual factors in foreign language learning and may have important practical implications in the Croatian socio- educational context.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Obrazovne znanosti (psihologija odgoja i obrazovanja, sociologija obrazovanja, politologija obrazovanja, ekonomika obrazovanja, antropologija obrazovanja, neuroznanost i rano učenje, pedagoške discipline)

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