A Study of Foreign Language Vocabulary Test Anxiety in the Context of Concrete/Abstract Word Test

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10.2991/assehr.k.220706.079How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Test Anxiety; Vocabulary Test; Concreteness; Test Performance

Abstract

Anxiety as an important emotion of individual differences will affect the language performance. There are many researches on learning and test anxiety involving in language skills, while the detailed foreign language vocabulary test remains relatively less. On the basis of anxiety measurement and word spelling test of concrete and abstract word test, this paper attempts to explore the relationship between the foreign language vocabulary anxiety and vocabulary test performance. 100 freshmen major in English participated in the experiment. Vocabulary test anxiety turns out to be a little higher among English majors and exerts a significant influence on the test performance. There are different test performances and anxiety levels in the concrete and abstract word tests. All these above implicate that both language instructors and learners cannot ignore the common vocabulary test anxiety. On the one hand, they can build up language learners’ confidence and self-evaluation. On the other hand, the reduction of vocabulary test anxiety can be practiced through the way of setting up images of words.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wei Chen
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/14
TI  - A Study of Foreign Language Vocabulary Test Anxiety in the Context of Concrete/Abstract Word Test
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 400
EP  - 405
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220706.079
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.079
ID  - Chen2022
ER  -