Table 5 Relationships among language anxiety and language proficiency with multilingual students.
From: Language anxiety in an Algerian multilingual tertiary context
Participants (Algerians) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arab (N = 307) | Amazigh (N = 164) | |||||||
Proficiency | ||||||||
Language anxiety | Intermediate (N = 240) | Advanced (N = 67) | Intermediate (N = 81) | Advanced (N = 83) | ||||
M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
Communicative anxiety | 28.47 | 5.68 | 26.46 | 4.96 | 27.20 | 4.40 | 25.75 | 5.61 |
Fear of failure | 42.07 | 7.27 | 40.37 | 8.24 | 42.15 | 7.17 | 40.58 | 6.74 |
Negative experiences | 10.45 | 2.80 | 8.14 | 2.69 | 8.25 | 2.68 | 7.86 | 2.99 |
Overall | 78.00 | 12.54 | 74.985 | 11.13 | 77.61 | 11.26 | 74.19 | 10.42 |
