36.2402, Books: Second Language Anxiety: Sparks (2025)

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Date: 12-Aug-2025
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Second Language Anxiety: Sparks (2025)


Title: Second Language Anxiety
Subtitle: Affective or Linguistic Variable?
Series Title: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800418776

Author(s): Richard L. Sparks

Hbk ISBN 9781800418776 £119.95 / US$159.95 / €142.95
PDF ISBN 9781800418783 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00
EPUB ISBN 9781800418790 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00

Abstract:

This book traces and summarizes theoretical insights and empirical
findings on the topic of whether or not anxiety for language learning
could be a causal variable for individual differences in language
learning. The author brings together three decades of research to show
that first language (L1) skills and second language (L2) aptitude are
confounding variables in studies of language anxiety and that
learners’ levels of anxiety for L2 learning are strongly related to
their levels of language achievement. These findings have suggested
that language anxiety instruments reflect students’ (accurate)
self-perceptions of their language skills and their levels of L1
achievement and L2 aptitude. The research presented in this book holds
the potential to change the ways in which L2 educators and researchers
think about language anxiety, how language anxiety is assessed, how
investigations into language anxiety are conducted and how L2 teachers
respond to anxiety in the classroom.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition




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