OJSL Home

2023 - Volume 6 - Number 1

Anxiety, Frustration, and Bad Experiences When Learning a Foreign Language Interfering in the Oral Production of a Teenager: A Case Study

Martha Gabriela Muñoz Valderrama
University of Guanajuato, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2023, 6(1), 29-36 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0601.04029m
Received: 10 December 2022 ▪ Revised: 7 May 2023 ▪ Accepted: 28 May 2023

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

ARTICLE (Full Text - PDF)

ABSTRACT:
Learning a language involves more than willingness and effort; it also involves emotions, good and bad experiences, and the effects of all of them in the production of all four skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Sadly, emotions and mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, and overthinking are put aside when learning a language. Mental disorders should have a stronger recognition in learning a language, those can affect the production of the language, therefore; the learners might feel frustrated for not achieving their expected goals in the language.

KEY WORDS: Anxiety, Oral production, second language learning, affective-filter hypothesis, frustration.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Martha Gabriela Muñoz Valderrama, University of Guanajuato, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Department of languages, Guanajuato, MEXICO.

REFERENCES:

Birkner, V. A. (2016). Revisiting input and output hypotheses in second language learning. Asian Education Studies, 1(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.20849/aes.v1i1.18

Boynton, P. M., & Greenhalgh, T. (2004). Selecting, designing, and developing your questionnaire. Bmj, 328(7451), 1312-1315. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1312

Crowe, S., Cresswell, K., Robertson, A., Huby, G., Avery, A., & Sheikh, A. (2011). The case study approach. BMC medical research methodology, 11(1), 1-9.  https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-100

Ganschow, L., & Sparks, R. (1996). Anxiety about foreign language learning among high school women. The Modern Language Journal, 80(2), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.1996.tb01160.x

Heale, R., & Twycross, A. (2018). What is a case study? Evidence-based nursing, 21(1), 7-8. https://doi.org/10.1136/eb-2017-102845

Hesslinger, B., Tebartz van Elst, L., Nyberg, E., Dykierek, P., Richter, H., Berner, M., & Ebert, D. (2002). Psychotherapy of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 252(4), 177-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-002-0379-0

Hood, M. (2009). Case study. In Qualitative research in applied linguistics (pp.66-89). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Horwitz, E. (2001). Language anxiety and achievement. Annual review of applied linguistics, 21, 112-126.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190501000071

Jackson, R. L., Drummond, D. K., & Camara, S. (2007). What is qualitative research? Qualitative research reports in communication, 8(1), 21-28.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17459430701617879

Karataş‐Özkan, M., & Murphy, W. D. (2010). Critical theorist, postmodernist and social constructionist paradigms in organizational analysis: A paradigmatic review of organizational learning literature. International Journal of Management Reviews, 12(4), 453-465.  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2370.2009.00273.x

Kiger, M. E., & Varpio, L. (2020). Thematic analysis of qualitative data: AMEE Guide No. 131. Medical Teacher, 42(8), 846-854.  https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2020.1755030

Miller, R. M., Chan, C. D., & Farmer, L. B. (2018). Interpretative phenomenological analysis: A contemporary qualitative approach. Counselor Education and Supervision, 57(4), 240-254.   https://doi.org/10.1002/ceas.12114

Ni, H. (2012). The effects of affective factors in SLA and pedagogical implications. Theory & Practice in Language Studies, 2(7). https://doi.org/10.4304/tpls.2.7.1508-1513

Petric, D. (2018). Emotional knots and overthinking. Research Gate. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18079.66720

Schmidt, R. (1992). Awareness and second language acquisition. Annual review of applied linguistics, 13, 206-226. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190500002476

Spada, N., & Lightbown, P. M. (2019). Second language acquisition. In An introduction to applied linguistics (pp. 111-127). Routledge. ISBN 9780429424465.