The anxiety in the teaching / learning process of spanish foreign language and its relationship with the linguistic contact in the context of english immersion
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https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v5i2.12987Keywords:
Teaching / learning, Spanish foreign language, Idiomatic anxiety Linguistic contact, Immersion context.Abstract
The teaching / learning process of a foreign language depends on the influence of external factors such as the social or sociocultural context, and also on the influence of internal factors such as motivation, cognitive styles or anxiety. Several studies indicate that language anxiety is the emotional factor that hinders the acquisition of foreign languages with greater force (Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope, 1986). The purpose of this article is to present the results of a research done on american university students American university students in Spanish in a inmersion contexto in the city of Valencia - Spain to compare if the frequent linguistic contact in the target language exerts some influence in the language anxiety by comparison of the anxiety levels at the beginning the and of the stay.Downloads
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