How Do Anxiety and Attitude Affect Learners’ English Performance?

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10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_172How to use a DOI?

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language learning performance; L2 language anxiety; L2 learning attitude; Chinese middle school students; Pandemic

Abstract

After the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019, in the face of the epidemic's impact, China's education has received excellent resistance, and the traditional education model has undergone great changes. As many online teachings began to appear, teachers could not communicate face-to-face or urge students to learn in time. This inevitably leads to the students 'L2 learning anxiety and a change in their L2 learning attitude. However, few studies have investigated L2 learning anxiety and L2 learning attitudes among middle school students and the relationship between L2 learning anxiety, learning attitude and learning performance. The present study used SPSS to analyze the data and figure out these two questions. The study took 117 middle school students in Jiangxi Province, China, as the research object, a population that has not been featured in the literature thus far, to study the L2 learning anxiety level, L2 learning attitude level, and the relationship between anxiety, attitude, and language performance of Chinese middle school students. The findings indicate that most of the students had a high level of L2 learning anxiety and a high level of L2 learning attitude in the Chinese context. L2 learning Anxiety was negatively correlated with language performance, and the L2 learning attitude and learning performance were positively correlated.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruihan Yin
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/11
TI  - How Do Anxiety and Attitude Affect Learners’ English Performance?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1334
EP  - 1344
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_172
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_172
ID  - Yin2023
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