Download or read book The Relationship Between Foreign Language Anxiety and Beliefs about Language Learning written by Najwa Majid Aown and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined and compared the interaction of foreign language anxiety lev el and beliefs about language learning of EFL learners at two universities in Le banon, one using English and one using French as a medium of instruction. A tota l of 233 students enrolled in the Intensive English Course and Communication Ski ll Program at the American University of Beirut where English is the medium of inst ruction and in the Necessary and Sufficient English Program at Saint Joseph Univ ersity where French is the medium of instruction participated in this study. The participants completed the Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory, the Forei gn Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and a background questionnaire. The results ind icated that there were differences in beliefs about language learning between st udents at the two institutions. Also, a stepwise multiple regression revealed th at some belief variables, such as perceived self- efficacy and confidence in lea rning English, the difficulty of learning English, the difficulty of speaking En glish and formal learning of English/ foreign language aptitude contributed sign ificantly to the prediction of foreign language anxiety. Finally, a multivariate analysis of variance showed that certain background variables, namely gender, e xperience abroad, having native English-speaking acquaintances, and expected course grades influenced students' anxiety English-s peaking levels and language learning beliefs. The pedagogical implications of th ese findings were discussed, as were suggestions for future research.