Resumen de Anxiety in people who stammer in foreign language learning
- español
Este estudio hace uso de un método original para describir los niveles de ansiedad en el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera en una muestra de veinticinco personas con tartamudez. Las respuestas se comparan con una serie de respuestas proporcionadas por un grupo de personas que no tienen este problema.
- English
Foreign language learning is an important part of education all around the world, but may provoke a specific form of anxiety affecting students who are otherwise capable and confident (Horwitz et al. 1986). One group of people who may be adversely affected by foreign language classroom anxiety is people who stammer (PWS). Stammering affects around 5% of children and about 1% of the adult population.
Although PWS may experience foreign language learning distinctly from people who do not stammer, there is no previous work on levels of anxiety in PWS in foreign language learning. The responses of 25 English-speaking PWS on an adapted form of Horwitz’s Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale were compared with those of Horwitz’s respondents, to establish if a connection exists between reported levels of anxiety and years spent studying a foreign language, as well as describing the perceived effectiveness of learning in PWS. Results indicate that PWS report more anxiety than the comparison group, and that PWS do not report feeling more disfluent than other learners.
