{"id":61244,"date":"2019-08-08T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T11:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azbuki.bg\/?p=61244"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:01:36","slug":"non-linguistic-factors-in-classroom-foreign-language-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategies.azbuki.bg\/en\/uncategorized\/non-linguistic-factors-in-classroom-foreign-language-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-linguistic Factors in Classroom Foreign Language Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marya Tsvetkova<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Sofia (Bulgaria)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract.<\/strong> Applied linguistics has come under the sway of two seemingly antithetic views \u2013 one prioritizing the social, the other \u2013 bringing to the fore the individual dimension. The present paper is aimed at revisiting foreign language evaluation from a dialectical perspective which allows for providing insights into the role of affective factors. It reports on a socially-situated investigation of language performance that accounts for students\u2019 motivation and anxiety conceived of here as symbolic resources. A total of 50 high-school learners of English filled in R. Gardner\u2019s Attitude \/ Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) at two points in time and participated in a quasi-experimental study. A pretest \u2013 posttest control group design was employed. The findings furnish evidence of the significant effect of increasing L2 motivation and alleviating anxiety on classroom L2 achievement.<br \/>\n<em>Keywords:<\/em> foreign language performance; motivation; anxiety; task-based assessment; sociocultural approach<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/strategies.azbuki.bg\/en\/member-login\/\">Log in to read the full text<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marya Tsvetkova University of Sofia (Bulgaria) &nbsp; Abstract. Applied linguistics has come under the sway of two seemingly antithetic views \u2013 one prioritizing the social, the other \u2013 bringing to the fore the individual dimension. 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