Publications

Publication details [#30569]

Gregersen, Tammy and Elaine K. Horwitz. 2002. Language Learning and Perfectionism: Anxious and Non-Anxious Language Learners' Reactions to Their Own Oral Performance. The Modern Language Journal 86 (4) : 562–570.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | communicative success | conversational analysis | foreign language acquisition | performative

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0026-7902

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/modl

Annotation

This study examines the relationship between foreign language anxiety and perfectionism by analyzing the reactions of anxious and non-anxious language learners to their videotaped oral performance and by analyzing the audiotapes for moments of perfectionism.