Taiwanese Graduate Students’ Personal Experiences on Culturally Related Language Anxiety and Adjustment

Yi-Wen Huang

Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 2014, vol. 4, issue 1, 258

Abstract: This study aims to understand Taiwanese graduate students’ personal experiences with culturally-relatedlanguage anxiety and adjustment in academic settings and utilizes an adapted version of FLCAS (Horwitz,Horwitz, & Cope, 1986), in-depth interviews, and focus groups. The results suggested that these Taiwanesegraduate students’ primary issues associated with culturally-related language anxiety and adjustment arelistening comprehension, participation in group discussions, and Taiwanese students’ mixed feelings amongmembers of the same nationality.

Date: 2014
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