- 期刊
Foreign Language Anxiety Coping Strategy Use of Taiwanese College EFL Students and Its Correlation with Language Learning Motivation
並列摘要
The Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan has established policies encouraging universities to set up the graduation language proficiency benchmark. Years later, it is perceived that it may somehow influence learners' language learning. This study was aimed to investigate college EFL learners' anxiety coping strategy use and its relationship with language learning motivation under the influence of graduation English proficiency benchmark. The study adapted the Chinese version of Coping Strategy Questionnaire (Marwan, 2007) and part items of Attitude Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) (Gardner, 1985). The participants were 201 undergraduates at a university in northern Taiwan. The quantitative data were computed through descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and an independent t-test utilizing Statistic Package for the Social Science (SPSS) version 19.0. The findings indicated that participants tended to use positive thinking strategies most, followed by peer seeking and resignation. Participants were at the moderate level of coping strategy use and language learning motivation, including both instrumental and integrative orientations. Variable such as passing the benchmark rather than gender would lead to discrepancies of participants' coping strategy use. As well, several pedagogical and theoretical applications and suggestions would be provided for the future studies and language instructors.
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