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Foreign Language Anxiety among Traditional and Online Students Enrolled in Foreign Language Courses at a Community College
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, Liberty University, United States ; , University of the District of Columbia, United States

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Washington, DC, United States Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

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This causal comparative research examines the differences between community college students’ foreign language anxiety levels in traditional and distance learning environments following Krashen’s second language acquisition theory and Kock’s media naturalness theory using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). The results of the study add to understanding of foreign language anxiety across different learning environments and will assist instructors and institutions of higher education with meeting the needs of students with various characteristics in their classes.

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Bollinger, A. & Wendt, J. (2016). Foreign Language Anxiety among Traditional and Online Students Enrolled in Foreign Language Courses at a Community College. In Proceedings of E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning (pp. 571-576). Washington, DC, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 15, 2024 from .

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