A Systematic Review of Foreign Language Listening Anxiety: Focus on the Theoretical Definitions and Measurements.

ABSTRACT: A considerable amount of research on foreign language (FL) listening anxiety has emerged since 1986, yet a lack of sufficient attention on the conceptual definitions of FL listening anxiety and inappropriate employment of instruments to measure FL listening anxiety cause confusion in the research to a certain extent. This study presents a systematic review of 35 years of FL listening anxiety research. After initially searching 2,172 studies in 7 databases, 76 studies were identified for in-depth analysis. The results verified that the definitions of FL listening anxiety can be categorized into psychological, social, and situation-specific approaches, but the measure of FL listening anxiety was not only examined under these three approaches, but also additionally examined by sources of anxi

SUBMITTER: Ji S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9260422 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature